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Subject:Re: Is framing theft? From:Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG> Date:Mon, 1 Jun 1998 10:41:55 -0500
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.
