Corpora: Copyright question/answer regarding imbedded links

Laramie Curran (a-laramc@microsoft.com)
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:29:48 -0700

Corpora Gatherers,
The message exchange below should be helpful if you've encountered a corpus
which has a link imbedded in the message. Start with my original message at
the bottom, then read Jonathan's response.
Laramie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Stutz
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 11:16 AM
> To: Laramie Curran (Volt Computer)
> Cc: Judy Weston (LCA)
> Subject: RE: Copyright question
>
> The characters that make up the www link,
> http://wlm.cc.kcl.ac.uk/onomasticon-sample/index.htm, would not be
> protected, but the content of the link itself would be protected by
> copyright.
>
> Judy, please jump in if you have additional thoughts.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laramie Curran (Volt Computer)
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 12:12 PM
> To: Jonathan Stutz
> Subject: Copyright question
>
> Jonathan,
> Below is an excerpt from a listserve document. Note that there is a link
> highlighted in blue. What is the copyright law for the link/attachment?
> protected. Can we use something that doesn't actually "belong" to the
> listserve but is an external resource of some sort? no.
> Laramie
> >Dear colleagues:
> >
> >I have put online a highly abridged version of my (I hope) forthcoming
> >Analytical Onomasticon to the Metamorphoses of Ovid, which I have called
> >the Onomasticon Sampler, at
> ><<http://wlm.cc.kcl.ac.uk/onomasticon-sample/index.htm>>. It consists of
> just
> >a few entries in each of the indexes, I hope a sufficient number to allow
> a
> >determined person to get an idea of how the thing might be useful. The
> >Onomasticon is intended for Ovidian specialists and others who have some
> >reason to want to understand how the bits of the Met might be put
> together
>
>