At 03:27 30/08/00 +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>Has anyone contacted the ABC about this?
>
>A similar case of poaching in Scotland a few years
>back found in favour of the plaintiff.
>
No, that was the Shetland Times v. Shetland News case, which revolved
around one of these news services putting links on their page which went to
the other service's stories, making it appear that you were still staying
on the same site. Probably akin to "passing off" in Trade Practices. This
case was, disappointingly, settled out of court, and so no caselaw came
from it. The Scottish judge who gave the original injunction had a most
interesting interpretation about linking, which might have slowed Web
development in Scotland right down...
This turkey at Ozshop is closer to the "TotalNews" case in the US, where
the site offered links to dozens of news services, framing each one with
its own commercial messages. Again it was settled out of court,
disappointingly, because the list of offences on the indictment read like a
year's programmes from NYPD Blue and L.A. Law put together. Most sites
being framed though, did develop a technological solution, prolly similar
to the line of code you've just described.
cheers,
Mike
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