Four legal dangers of links in articles and blogs — Sarah Hartley October 14, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , trackbackSummary of points from legal briefing, relayed by Sarah Hartley of MEN. Perhaps on the precautionary and technical end of the spectrum? (Fair enough.) She says in response to a comment: “It seems no org has yet been to court to make case law – stuff is being settled out of court.”
The four points boil down to:
“* A linking convention of opening in a new window will not save us if we do link to something defamatory or otherwise unlawful.
* Linking to a foreign site or article could lead to a contravention of a British court order.
* Never link into the archive for active cases.
* Be aware that the material being linked to could change from something safe to something less savoury.”
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