[LINK] permission required to link?

[Roger Clarke]

Eric Scheid <eric.scheid@ironclad.net.au>:
>A related issue is if you re-use part of their content as the link text,
>eg. the story headline on a news site. The SMH believes it has copyright
>in their headline texts and insists on certain conditions to linking
>using that headline text.

As I understand copyright law, SMH et al. would need to show that the 
headline text is a 'substantial part'.

I hope that judges are as dubious about the contributions of 
sub-editors as the rest of us, and that they'd be loathe to grant 
headlines such standing.

OTOH, if I remember correctly, WestLaw in the States has been 
successful in claiming rights in respect of very limited additions to 
reports of cases in the courts.

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