Copyright law meets the World Wide Web
Matt T. Rosenberg · XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students · 1995
Have you ever seen a Web page with an inline image from a URL at another site?What about an inline image that you know you have seen on another page, possibly a trademark?Have you ever saved your favorite web page to disk or even printed a hard copy of it?Is that ethical?Is that legal?This article cannot begin to touch the ethical question, but even the legal question is not simple.The accessibility of information --text and images --on the World Wide Web has raised new issues concerning what deserves copyright protection and what constitutes infringement of those rights.