What is linking and framing?
Linking
Linking is a method of connect a website to another in a form of link (AKA Hyperlink), when internet user clicked into a specially coded work. It will take them into another web page. A link can take the user to another page within the same site, which called as "internal link", or to another site altogether ("an external link").
Links and the law
Linking is too easy in the internet that business users feels that when legal restriction is take place it will violate the right to travel and freedom speaking in the internet. Deep linking ( a link that bypass the home page) is believe to be not copyrighted infringement. However it is wise to ask for permission first before deep linking because some website asserted rights against deep linkers under copyright and trademark law principles.
In 2002, a Danish court prevented a website from deep linking to newspaper site. In 2003, Germany weighed in the issue when its federal court ruled deep linking was not violating German copyright law. Subsequently, the Indian and Danish court both separately ruled against practice of deep linking in 2006. (http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter6/6-c.html, 2006)
Framing
Framing is another way of connecting to another website. It is quite similar to linking except it imports the original page and displayed it in a special frame. Framing another website might lead to legal issues involve like copyright and trademark. By framing another website, the framing website might think that it being framed endorses or is related to the offending website.
An online news website was sued because it framed the content of other major media websites such as USA Today, CNN and Time. The lawsuit settled and the offending website removed the framed content. (http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/business-operations/small-business-internet/internet-linking.html)
Credit to:
FindLaw, Website Linking, Framing, and Inlining, [Online], Retrieved 14th October 2011
URL: http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/business-operations/small-business-internet/internet-linking.html
Copyright and Fair use, Stanford University Library, Connecting to other websites, [Online], Retrieved 14th October 2011
Garage, Internet Law, Linking, Framing, and Inlining, [Online], Retrived 14th October 2011
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