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Subject:Re: Is framing theft? From:Sella Rush <sellar -at- APPTECHSYS -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 1 Jun 1998 11:37:24 -0700
Oh, yes. I strongly agree that framing crosses the line. There is simply
no compelling reason to frame--no justifiable defense. While I was a little
concerned a year or so ago when it looked like people were going to try to
limit link rights ( ludicrous idea), I think this goes way beyond that.
A couple of months ago, someone on this list complained the The Mining
Company was using "framing" with a link to articles on his site. He stated
that The Mining Company told him that their motivation was to present a (if
I remember right) a consistent/cohesive/uniform look to their viewers, to
make their "Internet experience" less confusing. Yeah, right. And it had
nothing to do with significantly promoting name recognition and encouraging
viewers to misunderstand who is providing what content.
As I remember, several people on the list provided HTML code that would get
rid of any frames when a page is accessed. Presumably this ISP has found a
way around it?
Sella Rush mailto:sellar -at- apptechsys -dot- com
Applied Technical Systems (ATS)
Bremerton, Washington
Developers of the CCM Database
-----Original Message-----
From: Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG>
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Date: Monday, June 01, 1998 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Is framing theft?
>Walker, Arlen P wrote:
>
>> The site designers, also named as defendants as is the ISP, compared
>> framing the newspapers' sites to putting a "courtesy of" sticker on
>> newspapers given away at hotels, a common practice.
>
>I believe it's also common practice to *buy* those newspapers before you
>put the sticker on them.
>
>> As a webspinner myself, I have a great deal of sympathy for the
newspapers'
>> point of view. The content *is* their business, not a byproduct of it, or
>> another avenue for selling it, and making it appear as if the content
came
>> from someone else seems wrong to me.
>
>Me too, Arlen. I'm interested to see what others think.
>
>Tracy
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