AOL to revamp Netscape.com Web portal

Giving visitors greater role in determining what news is shown to others

[trinorthlighting]

Interesting article:

[msnbc.msn.com...]

[Pfui]

Thanks for the FYI. Alas, can't say as I like the sound of this --

The outside articles appear as frames within the Netscape site, a technique over which major news organizations had sued a small news referral site in the mid-90s. The site, called TotalNews, stopped that practice as part of a settlement.

Calacanis said Netscape shouldn't run into similar problems because its site won't carry ads on the pages using frames. ...

Framing off-site pages is so nineties, and so legally iffy.* "target=_blank" like they use now would more than suffice, imho.

We shall see.

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*"Copyright Basics for the Internet [66.102.7.104]" (ppt->html<-cached)
by David Gleason, Esq., University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Linking and Framing

- Current state of the law is unsettled with regard to deep linking and framing
- Due to the nature of framing and the apparent wholesale copying of content, framing is best accomplished only with permission of the content owner
- Evolving law points to © infringement for illegal public display of original work in frame (Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp. 2002) ...