Web links in software

[Howard Bornstein]

On May 11, 2004, at 10:15 PM, curry wrote:

> Does anyone know whether permission is needed from a web page owner to 
> put a URL link to that page in a software application? (Similar to the 
> way a link is placed on the internet?)

Considering that Google and other search engines link to web pages all 
the time w/o permission, and that in print material, references to 
other books are done without "permission" I don't believe this will be 
a problem. Referencing another work does not require permission. 
Displaying the link *content* in your own web page (or software) is 
another issue. Remember how Dilbert ended up using a real-time 
generated URL reference so people wouldn't be able to simply reference 
the daily strip and show it in their own web pages?


Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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