[LINK] Legality of Linking, incl. 'Deep Linking'

Jan Whitaker jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Thu Apr 3 07:58:18 EST 2003


At 08:34 PM 1/04/03 +1000, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>To make myself clearer: a link found through a search engine, or indeed by 
>any other source for that matter, might lead someone to a page on a 
>website that circumvents the 'technology' to get to that point, but will 
>be none the wiser as to the 'offence' of bypassing certain conditions.

In that regard, is Google violating copyright by caching webpages without 
permission? And what about serving the html version of a pdf file?  Is that 
strictly legal? Under what protocol?

Jan


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