Iframes and content

[turbohost]

Hi Guys,

I'm writing a requirements document for a new site and I was brainstorming about how I would include news articles on the sites. I want to use an iframe for the article itself because I don't want the visitor to leave my site. Please, I don't want a discussion about the ethics of the options below :-> Which of the following options is a copyright violation?

Option 1 : There will always be a header of my site above the article.

Option 2 : There will always be a header of my site above the article and I fetch the text from the article to use as keywords on my page. This text is out of sight (but still included in the html) for the visitors and will be used for the search engines to better list my site.

Option 3 : There will always be a header of my site above the article and I fetch the text from the article IN RANDOM ORDER to use as keywords on my page. This text is out of sight for the visitors (but still included in the html) and will be used for the search engines to better list my site.

Turbo

[zulu_dude]

I'm not a lawyer, but I would imagine that the last two options are pretty much the same thing and would both be copyright violations. You are taking information from someone else's website, without their permission, to use for your own benefit. Regardless of whether the users can see it or not, it's still included in your HTML of your page/site.

This isn't a comment on the ethics of doing what you want to do, more a comment on how it would look to your user. Personally, when I visit a site that includes articles from other sites under a banner frame, I straight away ditch the referring site and continue browsing the new site. In my mind, any site that originally has the info I'm looking for is probably going to be more useful that one that simply includes it within a frame. Obviously I don't know the specifics of your case, so your situation might very well warrant doing such a thing.

And this is just my personal preference, most users probably don't worry about little things like the frame at the top (unless it has incredibly tacky animations and plays that STUPID frog song ringtone thing. How annoying is that ridiculous creature?). Just my 2 cents worth...

[turbohost]

My intention is to build an information site about a specific topic and I'm fetching all the information from different sites. Maybe it's better to use just a link, a short description and open the link in a new frame.