Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Secure Prevention of Deep Linking

Author:	John Brewer
Posted:	8/11/1999; 7:35:05 PM
Topic:	Deep Linking
Msg #:	9367 (In response to 9366)
Prev/Next:	9366 / 9368

It's not clear what legal theory they can use to prevent you. URLs are facts, not creative expressions, so you can't copyright them. As long as you're not passing their work off as your own, there's no unfair competition.

So, they can complain, or do something stupid like break all their URLs, but that's about it.

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