[thelist] Legal Advice - Linking

[Rachel Cunliffe]

My entire purpose is to do some reason on a topic which currently has no
such research (I'm also a statistician), nothing in it for me other than
interest sakes.

Another anology I thought of over dinner was phone book producers don't
prohibit market researchers using their phone books to survey people :)

However, he seems to think that it is against some sort of copyright
laws and has a huge copyright statement on his site.  The research won't
be the same only using one of the two sites.  He actually thinks my idea
is great, just wants it to be exclusive to his site and certainly not
associated with the other.

Are there any good places where I could get some advice?

Kind regards
Rachel

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Not that I'm a lawyer or anything, but this seems a no-brainer. You
don't feel obligated to credit google for helping you find info on the
Internet, do you? It might be a nice thing to thank the sites for
helping you in your research, but to draw an analogy: if someone tells
you about a sweepstakes they say you should enter, and you do and you
win, they'd be laughed out of court if they tried to claim a right to
your winnings.

On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 10:49  PM, Rachel Cunliffe wrote:
> There are two
> websites with a large set of links.  I am wanting to know if I am able

> to use their set of links, go off to the sites and collect information

> from each of those sites Do I need to get permission
> from the people who host the sites with the links if I want to publish
> my results?

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Erik Mattheis
GoZz Digital
<http://goZz.com/>
Flash and ColdFusion Development
Minneapolis, MN
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