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Posted by Jim Higson on 03/20/06 17:03
PeterMcC wrote:
> Jim Higson wrote in
> <e92dnRnzjqgNDYPZRVny1A@eclipse.net.uk>
>
>> jmev7 wrote:
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>>> I've been wondering how sites are able to contain other sites within
>>> them, linking them as if they were their own [snip] is it legal?
>>
>> Under which country's laws?
>>
>> My take is that a frameset does not copy the resource, and only tells
>> the browser where the resource is avaliable, which probably isn't
>> copyrightable information.
>
> You might want to double check that interpretation.
Nah, since I'll probably never do a site with frames, I'm quite happy in my
legally permissive bubble.
> If a site displays copyright information from another site without first
> gaining the copyright holder's permission, the means used to do so are not
> of significance in determining whether a breach of copyright has occurred.
In which country?
Is there any precedence where telling the browser where a resource is
availiable is treated the same as copying the resource onto your own
servers? A frameset is only a special kind of linking, and it seems
ridiculous that hyperlinking to a copyrighted resource is infringement.
This seems roughly equivalent to all the sites serving torrent files for
their users' trackers. Under the USA's very strict copyright law the DMCA
has been used against such bittorrent sites, but elsewhere noone has been
successful in court against these sites. (see
http://thepiratebay.org/legal.php for some good examples!)
Thankfully I don't live in the US, nor a country the US has "encouraged" to
"harmonise" copyright law.
If taking someone else's work and displaying it in your work is an
infringement, browser writers better be worried!
Btw, if anyone does this to your site, and you'd rather they wouldn't, you
can always block them by checking the REFERER header.
--
Jim
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