Subject: Re: Advertising on Individual's Web server From: meyer@newslink.org Date: Mon, 10 Apr 95 21:34:25 PDT

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>I'm just waiting for something like Yahoo (a popular WWW index) to appear
>that has a news section with links to all that day's headlines ... all from
>different newspapers.  Because of the structure and tradition of the Web, no
>one can stop you from including hyperlinks to someone else's content.  The
>owner of such a home page has no obligation to pay for the right to
>include a link.  He could even organize the links into a news layout that makes
>them appear to be original.
>
>A clever programmer could also create an intelligent news gatherer like
>the World Wide Web Worm that surfs through on-line news sources
>(or for that matter, goes straight to NewsLink ;-) and creates a hypertext
>home page with its findings.  The content is not being copied, only referenced.
>It makes Nexis look like a chew toy.

Check out Crayon. That basically is what it does with a simple PERL script.

  
CRAYON prototype 
  configurable newspaper


Or see what Newshare has in mind and imagine how the two could merge.

  
Newshare, 
  information re-seller, not fully active


But don't bet on it being legal to sell ads around someone else's product 
without their permission. It might not violate copyright, but it could well be 
actionable as an unfair competition tort. You won't see NewsLink doing that!

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ERIC K. MEYER                    meyer@newslink.org 
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