willtell - 4:47 am on Dec 7, 2001 (gmt 0)

This is interesting since I just today had a lengthy discussion with my patent lawyer.
This is what they told me about our site and copyright.

To have protection in the courts you must apply for a copyright certificate. The process is cheap and easy to do but it is not necessary easy to get a certificate. They will consider your works of art very carefully and will take around 8 months to get back to you.
You can expedite the process by paying a $500 fee instead of the $30 fee. In the case of our site, which in my opinion, has a very distinct design and structure. They thought it would be difficult to certify because the structure is not seen only the visible display on the browser.

To apply that to you situation, it might be very difficult to 'certify' as original because the 'links' are not easily seen because they are really in the source code that is not visible.
Don't take this a legal advise, only that is might not be as easy as you think.