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<font size=3>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.<br><br>
--Amanda Lenhart<br>
Pew Internet & American Life Project<br><br>
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At 03:19 PM 2/15/2002 -0600, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>This case was actually decided in
one of the auction houses I think, Ebay? I'd<br>
have to look. But deep linking is providing a link from your page,
to a page<br>
several layers deep in someone elses website.<br><br>
For example, to download adobe acrobate reader, adobe quite naturally
wants to<br>
get some information from the user. Lets say that I want my
visitors to use<br>
adobe, but not to plow through five+ pages of questions and
advertisements, so I<br>
figure out a way to link directly to the file download (copy the
meta-refresh or<br>
something similar). This is an example of a deep link. I've
circumvented the<br>
planned navigation of the website and altered their product in the
process.<br><br>
Does that help?<br><br>
--JW<br><br>
Jennifer Stromer-Galley wrote:<br><br>
> John White wrote:<br>
> > This raises a host of interesting copyright questions.<br>
> > Archiving a website for<br>
> > research purposes is probably not a violation.<br>
> > Redistributing reprints of it,<br>
> > without the original author's/poster's permission, is.<br>
> > Mirroring it locally,<br>
> > without permission, is. In this day and age, even
"deep<br>
> > linking" can be<br>
> > considered copyright infringement.<br>
><br>
> What is "deep linking" and how can it be considered
copyright infringement?<br>
><br>
> ~Jenny Stromer-Galley<br>
><br>
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