13.0151 new on WWW: RLG DigiNews; articles on hypertext legality

Humanist Discussion Group (humanist@kcl.ac.uk)
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:08:05 +0100 (BST)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 151.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (39)
Subject: August Issue of RLG DigiNews Available

[2] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (53)
Subject: Recent Articles on Legality of Hypertext Linking

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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:48:19 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: August Issue of RLG DigiNews Available

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
August 23, 1999

August Issue of RLG DigiNews Available
<http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/>http://www.rlg.org/p
<http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/>http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/

Highlights of the August issue of DigiNews, published by the Research
Libraries Group are essays by Anne R. Kenney and Louis Sharpe II,
"Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements of Printed
Illustrations," and by Thaddeus Lipinski on "Digitisation of Early Journals."

Also reported is the latest news on Rlg's providing access to the AMICO
library and on the RLG-DLF Task Force Addressing Long-Term Retention of
Digital Information.

David Green

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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:48:36 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Recent Articles on Legality of Hypertext Linking

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources & Issues
from across the Community
August 23, 1999

"Ticketmaster Sues Again Over Links," by Bob Tedeschi
New York Times, August 10
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/articles/10tickets.html>
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/articles/10tickets.html>htt
p://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/articles/10tickets.html

"Is Linking Always Legal? The Experts Aren't Sure," by Carl Kaplan
New York Times, August 6
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/cyberlaw/06law.html>ht
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/cyberlaw/06law.html>http://
www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/cyberlaw/06law.html

These two fairly recent article from the New York Times attest to the
continuing concern about the legality, or advisedness, of linking,
especially deep-linking, to certain web material. Although the cases
involving commercial linkage to commercial sites may be comparatively
clear, the cases involving the non-commercial use of commercial sites are
perhaps those more compelling for this community.

An incident related to the two specific cases cited in these two articles
was that involving art museums, in the Spring, protesting the deep-linking
to digital reproductions of works in their collections by the on-line Grove
Dictionary of Art, published by Macmillan (see the article in the May 13
New York Times, "Art Online: The Internet Mounts a Masterpiece,"
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/circuits/articles/13grov.html>htt
p://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/circuits/articles/13grov.html ).

David Green
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