[LINK] permission required to link?

[Roger Clarke]

marghanita@ramin.com.au:
>Your friend simply needs to set out a policy for links from the website
>- it should probably also contain the basis for selecting links.

That has no basis in law.  If you do it, or recommend that other 
people do it, I urge that you avoid implying that there is such a 
basis.

The reason I feel that way is that publishers, whether they're the 
likes of you and me, or major corporations, should be given *zero* 
assistance in their attempts to extend the scope of copyright law.

(That said, I agree that some sites need a statement along the lines 
of 'we encourage you to link to our home-page.  That's because our 
dopey server / dopey web-site design / manipulative web-site design 
makes it impossible to guarantee the currency of deep-nested URLs').

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