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The following is not meant to be legal advice.

Back in the days, attorneys advised on whether framing and linking were considered intellectual property infringement.  Some noteworthy cases were Washington Post vs. Total News, where there was claimed misappropriation, and Futuredontics Inc. vs. Applied Anagramic Inc. (unpublished 1998), where there was no showing of irreparable harm in a copyright claim.

These days, the web has sites with images and videos, more than just linking one site to another.  Is the copying or linking of images considered copyright infringement if permission is not asked of the copyright holder.  What would the attorneys in Ticketmaster vs. Tickets.com think?  They were the attorneys who argued issues such as copyright, Lanham Act, trespass evolving around the hyperlinking subject.  There was also Intellectual Reserve, Inc. vs. Utah Lighthouse Ministry, Inc., a case in Utah involving contributory copyright infringement with the posting of an email that contained three links to web sites.