- Web Design, SEO, Coding, Hosting and Misc Rants Texas Court Bans Deeplinking
According to The Register, linking to other websites, or deeplinking, may soon be illegal.
“A court in Dallas, Texas has found a website operator liable for copyright infringement because his site linked to an ‘audio webcast’ without permission. Observers have criticised the judge for failing to understand the internet.”
The case entails that webmasters linking to other websites may be violating copyright laws if the company or webmaster of the site you are linking to doesn’t approve of his/her URL or site name being on your site.
I think it’s totally ridiculous that a case like this even made it to court; even worse that the judge was in favor of the prosecutor. I really think that Internet-related issues should be handled by a different body of courts and judges; ones that are educated as webmasters.
Written by King Justice on March 14th, 2007 with
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#1. March 24th, 2007, at 1:48 AM.
We all know that refferencing other material via link of bookmark isn’t illegal. Text books refference and quote other books and media sources all the time. They making links illegal is like making book illegal.
Stupid Pinkertons.