On the other hand ...

So I think that the law is going to have to recognize a common practice as legitimate. Maybe, but maybe not. Brad Templeton, one of the most respected commentators in this field has done some thinking on this issue as well. As he puts it:

I, and many other people initially had the intuitive feeling that it could never be a violation of copyright to make a link to a web page. Later, I've come to think that this might be wrong in some cases, though only those where you've been ordered not to.

With that in mind, he makes an important comment on technology in general:

Remember that while technologically it is difficult (but not impossible) to stop people from being able to fetch a component graphic from a web page or a sub-page buried under advertising supported menus, the whole purpose of copyright law is to provide legal protection for documents when technological protection is hard. You don't need legal copyright protection if technological protection is easy, after all.

It's a good point.

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