Frame Copyright

Is it okay to use other site's page in frame?

[imweb]

Can anyone confirm if use of other sites's webpage in a frame okay? Is there any conditions to copyright notice?
Thanks

[BigDave]

No one can confirm it because the few decisions conflict.

You might want to consider that both your users and the other site are likely to find it to be very annoying, to say the least. It isn't a great plan for winning friends.

[imweb]

I guess so. I 'll scrap this idea.

[LifeinAsia]

Think about it this way:
YOU spend years and lots of money developing unique content for YOUR site. Someone else puts YOUR site in HIS frame and makes it look like it's HIS content. How do you feel about that?
Not only does the other person frame YOUR content in HIS site, but HIS site makes money on banner advertising because people are coming to HIS site to view YOUR content.
Oh, and since the content is coming from YOUR site, YOU get charged for the bandwidth used to feed the content that HE makes money on.

[lcampers]

one major site i know that does this is "about"

i do know that one site that has fought this and won is XXX (THE major US news site with three letters), no other site, major or otherwise will, or can, frame their site because they spent lots of law-dollars fighting it... other sites seem to not have the resources to do that

[stapel]

If nothing else, it's bad manners to frame other people's content. If you want to link, great. But don't put somebody else's stuff inside a frame on your own site. It's rude (to the creator/owner) and annoying (to the user).

Just my $0.02.

Eliz.

[europeforvisitors]

The Publishing Law Center has an article about framing that discusses the TotalNews case of the late 1990s, when CNN, the New York Times, etc. reached a settlement with TotalNews.com, which had been framing their content with its own ads:

[publaw.com...]

Unfortunately, because the case never went to trial, the framing issue is still in limbo.

For what it's worth, when I once asked About.com's CEO why the company risked framing other sites' content, he replied that Ask Jeeves framed other sites and had never been sued. I suspect that framing has never been pursued aggressively in court because (a) most owners of framed content don't want to lose their inbound links from sites like About.com by raising a fuss, and (b) it's cheaper to use framebreaking code than to hire a lawyer.