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Posted by Neredbojias on 03/20/06 21:34
With neither quill nor qualm, Carolyn Marenger quothed:
> PeterMcC wrote:
>
> > Jim Higson wrote in
> > <e92dnRnzjqgNDYPZRVny1A@eclipse.net.uk>
> >
> >> jmev7 wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> On a technicality... Using frames, and other means, I can instruct your
> browser to load someone else's page into a section of one of my pages. My
> site however, has not displayed any information from the third party's
> site. Your browser, providing it can and does follow frameset
> instructions, did the retrieving and displaying. I only provided a link to
> the third party's page and instructions on where to display the content.
You provided the _means_ to display it which is under your auspices and,
therefore, contendable. This is different than a mere link; your
framework (yuk yuk) makes the "copy" available in another and additional
form, so in (US) superior court, Perry Mason would make mince meat out
of you.
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Neredbojias
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