Proprietary Rights in Hypertext Linkages
- A thesis that there is no legal grounds for excluding the operation of hypertext linkages. [JILT: The Journal of Information, Law and Technology]
- http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/jilt/1998_2/burk/
The Link Controversy Page
- Collection of information about the legal implications of hyperlinking, inlining and framing.
- http://www.jura.uni-tuebingen.de/bechtold/lcp.html
Linking, Framing and Inlining
- Information about the law relating to deep linking, framing, and IMG links. [Nolo]
- http://www.nolo.com/article.cfm/objectID/C13F7E6B-B05E-43DF-80D62B635DF9DD9F/
Linking and Crawling Issues
- Attorney Ivan Hoffman outlines some cases over linking and related topics.
- http://www.ivanhoffman.com/linking.html
Linking Policies for Public Web Sites
- For librarians creating sites that link to others. Describes importance of having a linking policy, gives resources on policy creation, describes controversies. [LLRX.com]
- http://www.llrx.com/features/internetwaves.htm
Is Linking Always Legal? The Experts Aren't Sure
- Commentary on challenges to linking rights. Free registration required. [NY Times]
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/cyberlaw/06law.html
Linking and Liability
- Technical aspects of linking and legal theories that may limit the right to link to other pages. [BitLaw]
- http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/linking.html
Linking Copyright to Homepages
- A law review article examining the legal implications of "links", including liability and copyright. Concludes that a linking page is analogous to the publisher of a telephone book. [Federal Communications Law Journal]
- http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v49/no3/jackson.html
Thinking About Linking
- Can law accommodate the power of the Internet to share information? An overview of how old legal rules are being adapted to new media technology. [Law Library Resource Xchange]
- http://www.llrx.com/features/weblink1.htm
The Link to Liability
- Editorial criticizing linking lawsuits and how the law is falling behind technology. [The American Lawyer]
- http://www.cli.org/DPost/Linking.html
What's all the Hype about Hyperlinking?
- A brief overview of some linking regulation disputes. [Jeffrey R. Kuester and Peter A. Nieves]
- http://www.patentperfect.com/hyper.htm
Link.Openly: Etiquette
- "The law has decided very little about hyperlinking, so custom and practice is a much better guide for implementers and publishers of hyperlinks." Suggestions for linking formats.
- http://www.openly.com/link.openly/etiquette.html