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» Copyright Issues Present Ongoing Dilemma: To Link or Not To Link?
   Addresses the legal and ethical issues behind the online copying and distribution of news content. [Online Journalism Review]
   http://www.ojr.org/ojr/ethics/1065049186.php

» Don't Link to Us!
   Describing to sites that attempt to impose substantial restrictions on other sites that link to them.
   http://www.dontlink.com

» Is Linking Always Legal? The Experts Aren't Sure
   Commentary on challenges to linking rights. Free registration required. [NY Times]
   http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/cyberlaw/06law.html

» Legal Issues on the Internet: Hyperlinking and Framing
   Overview of issues in linking and framing disputes. [D-Lib magazine]
   http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april98/04orourke.html

» Linking Copyright to Homepages
   A law review article examining the legal implications of "links", including liability and copyright. Concludes that a linking page is analogous to the publisher of a telephone book. [Federal Communications Law Journal]
   http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v49/no3/jackson.html

» Linking Policies for Public Web Sites
   For librarians creating sites that link to others. Describes importance of having a linking policy, gives resources on policy creation, describes controversies. [LLRX.com]
   http://www.llrx.com/features/internetwaves.htm

» Linking and Crawling Issues
   Attorney Ivan Hoffman outlines some cases over linking and related topics.
   http://www.ivanhoffman.com/linking.html

» Linking and Liability
   Technical aspects of linking and legal theories that may limit the right to link to other pages. [BitLaw]
   http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/linking.html

» Linking, Framing and Inlining
   Information about the law relating to deep linking, framing, and IMG links. [Nolo]
   http://www.nolo.com/article.cfm/objectID/C13F7E6B-B05E-43DF-80D62B635DF9DD9F/

» Links & Law
   Clearinghouse for news and legal cases about linking.
   http://www.linksandlaw.com/

» Netlitigation: Linking, Framing, and Metatags
   Issue overview and case analyses.
   http://www.netlitigation.com/netlitigation/linking.htm

» Proprietary Rights in Hypertext Linkages
   A thesis that there is no legal grounds for excluding the operation of hypertext linkages. [JILT: The Journal of Information, Law and Technology]
   http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/jilt/1998_2/burk/

» Thinking About Linking
   Can law accommodate the power of the Internet to share information? An overview of how old legal rules are being adapted to new media technology. [Law Library Resource Xchange]
   http://www.llrx.com/features/weblink1.htm

» What's all the Hype about Hyperlinking?
   A brief overview of some linking regulation disputes. [Jeffrey R. Kuester and Peter A. Nieves]
   http://www.patentperfect.com/hyper.htm