[Air-l] Using Online Citations to Defunct Web Sites
Amanda Lenhart
alenhart at pewinternet.org
Fri Feb 15 13:25:55 PST 2002
Actually, it was a case involving TicketMaster, I believe. Someone was
linking to internal pages for tickets and TicketMaster was annoyed because
users were then bypassing ads on the front page, and those ads weren't
getting the eyeballs that TicketMaster had suggested to the advertisers
that they would get.
--Amanda Lenhart
Pew Internet & American Life Project
At 03:19 PM 2/15/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>This case was actually decided in one of the auction houses I think,
>Ebay? I'd
>have to look. But deep linking is providing a link from your page, to a page
>several layers deep in someone elses website.
>
>For example, to download adobe acrobate reader, adobe quite naturally wants to
>get some information from the user. Lets say that I want my visitors to use
>adobe, but not to plow through five+ pages of questions and
>advertisements, so I
>figure out a way to link directly to the file download (copy the
>meta-refresh or
>something similar). This is an example of a deep link. I've circumvented the
>planned navigation of the website and altered their product in the process.
>
>Does that help?
>
>--JW
>
>Jennifer Stromer-Galley wrote:
>
> > John White wrote:
> > > This raises a host of interesting copyright questions.
> > > Archiving a website for
> > > research purposes is probably not a violation.
> > > Redistributing reprints of it,
> > > without the original author's/poster's permission, is.
> > > Mirroring it locally,
> > > without permission, is. In this day and age, even "deep
> > > linking" can be
> > > considered copyright infringement.
> >
> > What is "deep linking" and how can it be considered copyright infringement?
> >
> > ~Jenny Stromer-Galley
> >
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