FC: "Runner's World" threatens suit over printer-friendly deep links

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 11:11:02 PDT

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    The "printer-friendly" deep link in question (verboten!):
    http://www.runnersworld.com/home/0,1300,1-0-0-1963-1-0-P,00.html
    
    Previous Politech message:
    
    "Latest linking spat: Dallas Morning News sends silly nastygrams"
    http://www.politechbot.com/p-03471.html
    
    Politech archive on linking:
    http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=linking
    
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    http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,52514,00.html
    
       Another Run to a Deep-Link Suit
       By Declan McCullagh 
    
       10:00 a.m. May 14, 2002 PDT
       WASHINGTON -- Add a major magazine publisher to the ranks of websites
       peeved about "deep links" to their articles.
       
       Rodale Press, the publisher of Runner's World magazine and many other
       prominent health-oriented publications, sent a stiff note to a
       hobbyist website this week, demanding it delete a hyperlink to a
       "printer-friendly" version of a runnersworld.com article -- or face
       the consequences.
       
       Allen Tullar, an attorney representing the Emmaus, Pennsylvania-based
       publisher, gave the LetsRun.com site until the end of the day Tuesday
       to comply, saying otherwise, "My client will pursue its rights" under
       federal copyright law.
       
       Rodale's nastygram comes not long after the Dallas Morning News became
       irate over so-called deep links to newspaper articles. Deep links
       point to specific sub-pages on a website, allowing readers to bypass
       the site's home page, and, occasionally, avoid seeing some
       advertisements.
    
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