More on deep linking....A German newspaper is in court demanding a quarter of a million dollars in damages from a search engine for indexing its free online content and giving users direct (i.e. deep) links to individual stories. It's easy to criticize the newspaper's suit as silly --when it could have deflected deep links from its own site or when it could have profited from the increased visibility. But the more troubling silliness lies with the EU database directive, which prohibits this kind of indexing and linking.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/25/2002 07:55:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
