Hot links - forget the Shetlands

[Jason Romney]

Tony & linkers,
	For anyone interested in the Shetlands issue there is a long &
detailed discussion with Peter Leonard from the law firm, Gilbert &
Tobin, about the Shetlands case, the TotalNews case and how these issues
might be expressed in our own Australian context at
http://msn.com.au/news/audio in the World Technology Roundup interview,
March 11, 1997. Check the index at the bottom of the page to see what
issue is tackled on a given date.

Regards,
Jason Romney
Editor-in-Chief,
MSNBC & MSN News, Australia
jasonrom@microsoft.com
Direct Voice: (612) 9870 2723



	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Tony.Barry@anu.edu.au [SMTP:Tony.Barry@anu.edu.au]
	Sent:	Friday, 14 March 1997 18:47
	To:	link@charlotte.anu.edu.au
	Subject:	Hot links - forget the Shetlands

	Linker

	This one looks like it will be MUCH bigger than the Shetalnds
case.  Look
	at the players.

	>NEWS LINK SITE SUED OVER HOT LINKS
	>A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in New York City accuses
	>Phoenix-based TotalNews of "blatant acts of misappropriation,
trademark
	>dilution and infringement, willful copyright violations, and
other related
	>tortious acts."  The plaintiffs, which include CNN, The
Washington Post Co.,
	>Dow Jones, Times Mirror and Reuters, are upset that the hot
links provided
	>from TotalNews to their Web sites display their content framed
by the
	>TotalNews home page and its banner ads.  Bruce Keller, an
attorney for the
	>plaintiffs calls totalnews.com "a parasitic Web site with no
content of its
	>own."  However, TotalNews says it's simply providing PC users
links to some
	>1,200 news sources, allowing viewers to compare information
from each, and
	>that if the case goes against them, the precedent will endanger
the ability
	>of Web site operators to provide hot links to other sites.
"Hot links
	>either do or don't violate trademarks.  That's not new.
Framing is new. And
	>framing and selling ads is pretty damn new," says Keller.
(Broadcasting &
	>Cable 3 Mar 97)

	Source Edupage, 13 March 1997

	Tony

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