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Is anyone else seeing certain words become hyperlinked to ads when they post??

Court: Hands off that hyperlink By Lisa M. Bowman Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 8, 2002, 1:30 PM PT http://news.com.com/2100-1023-942187.html In one of the first legal decisions to ban so-called deep linking, a Danish court has ruled that a news site cannot provide hyperlinks to certain Web pages without the permission of publishers. Under the ruling, news aggregator Newsbooster is banned from providing some deep links--or links to Web pages other than a site's front door--from its site or newsletters.It's unclear whether the ruling by Copenhagen's lower bailiff's court will have broader ramifications for the Web. The decision only prevents...

CORRECTED: NY Judge Narrows Terms in BT Internet Patent Case Fri Mar 15,10:43 AM ET By Eric Auchard NEW YORK (Reuters) - An initial ruling by a U.S. judge has narrowed what British Telecom can say to prove its claim to have invented hyperlinking, in a high-profile case that could give BT rights to demand royalties on Internet use. U.S. Federal Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Colleen McMahon issued an opinion from her White Plains, N.Y. court late on Wednesday that only partially accepted the wording of BT arguments that its 1970s patent should cover modern...