a Danish court ordered an Internet news service to stop linking to Web sites of Danish newspapers

~ `Deep –Linking:

Deep-Linking is what we are doing in many of the endnote embedded hot-links here.

Many commercial website owners want to prevent deep-linking and to instead redirect any traffic linked to their web domain first to their advertisement filled homepage.

Cyber-activists believe the right to deep-link is essential for the World Wide Web to be a truly free place for the exchange of information. Commercial Internet portals believe their copyrights give them the right to control access to their deep-linked information.[15] ~~ tp

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[14] For further reading on this important matter, the American Library Association's

website has a page dedicated to Deep-Link issues @ http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/deeplinking.html .

Last accessed October 17, 2004.

[15] “COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 5 — Challenging the World Wide Web’s fundamental premise of linking, a Danish court ordered an Internet news service to stop linking to Web sites of Danish newspapers. Copenhagen’s lower bailiff’s court ruled Friday that Newsbooster.com was in direct competition with the newspapers and that the links it provided to specific news articles damaged the value of the newspapers’ advertisements.” FROM: Associated Press. Danish Court Bars Web Site’s Links. News service told to stop linking to Danish newspapers. Last accessed July 5 2002. (Page no longer available) www.msnbc.com @ http://www.msnbc.com/news/776542.asp?0na=x22475G1a