Making linking legal

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@ 12:02PM EST 1.30.2007

Can you legally link to another web site without violating copyright laws? Well, there is no simple answer. Is there ever?

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>> I think the article is misleading. Linking to another site is currently legal, deep links or otherwise. Even according to the article, there is no US law or court decision that would make linking illegal or suggest that it infringes on copyrights. I think where you get into potential legal trouble is where you blur the ownership of the content. That occurs with the techniques discussed in the article about "framing" or "inlining". If you're doing that sort of stuff on your site, then you probably should be concerned. - Mike Rankin
>> Thanks for the comment, Mike.

And you're spot-on: linking is legal. Inlining, framing, posting PDFs of the original page content, etc are where folks get into legal trouble.

However, our larger clients have expressed concern about the potential legal exposure. Unfortunately, should a site owner feel that there has been a copyright violation, the corporation still has to respond to the filing ... regardless of the legal precedent.

More and more of our clients are seeking advance permission rather than asking for forgiveness.

- David Taylor-Klaus
>> I also think that some content sites (no naming dropping here, but a simple web search should turn up results) actually have outlined in their Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy's that direct links to articles are not allowed. So most everyone should do their homework at least a little bit before linking away. - Eric Jones

I love SPAM!

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posted by: Eric Jones

@ 3:26PM EST 10.31.2006

Just a short note here to give some props to Brandon over at devNulled for his awesome CFAkismet CFC. I've always known about Akismet which is a great spam comment tool / web service developed for WordPress but never got around to implementing it. Well this weekend i sat down to work on a personal project which needed Akismet functionality. So i did a search to see if anyone else in the CF world had already built this as a tag or CFC and sure enough there was Brandon's CFC.

So we've got the Akismet stuff locked and loaded. I've already taken a smattering of old spam and thrown it at the blog and I'm happy to report it was all caught by Akismet and our code didn't have to even fall back to our backup checks.

So if you've got a blog or need to check comments etc i encourage you to deploy Akismet and if you're a CF developer get Brandon's code and implement it today!

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Talking with your fly down

ColdFusion | User Experience | Digital Positions | Blogging | Comment Spam

posted by: Eric Jones

@ 1:23PM EST 1.5.2006

Have you ever been involved in a conversation with someone and seen or found something absolutely embarrassing about them. Something like a piece of food stuck between their teeth, or someone with a piece of toilet paper on their shoe, or worse a guy with his fly down. It’s distracting to say the least and makes it really hard to concentrate on what the person is talking about. This is how I feel about comment spam on blogs as will most of your blog’s audience. Don’t fret; there are steps you can take to stop it. In this article I’ll talk about a few of the steps we here at Digital Positions are taking, including monitoring our posts, moderating suspected comments, and setting up black lists for keywords, domains, and known email address’s of comment spammers.

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>> That's friggin' awesome. Thanks to all those involvede - Serena

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