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I just found a travel article of mine on another website -- not printed but linked. Which was weird but kinda cool!

I guess anyone can do that with our travel stories without our permission, right? I know you guys can syndicate our stories whenever (esp. if there's cash involved).

What's the deal?

Just another travel addict trying to get Out of dodge...

Yes, anyone can do that without permissions. The reason is that linking does not take traffic away from bootsnall (where-as hosting the article somewhere else would).

If anything bootsnall LOVES being linked because it brings in more traffic and it increases the ranking of bootsnall on search sites such as google.

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Oh, and congrats about being linked, thats awesome.

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Don't get me wrong, I love that BnA is linked as well (and the fact that my story was used is wicked!).

I just wondered if, as a courtesy, they'd asked someone on the staff if they could link to it. So that we as BnA authors would know where our articles are being used.

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oh, you'd have to ask sean on that.

All I know is they dont have to.

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Delara,

They simply linked to your article...they did not take any copyrighted material. One the web, any webpage can link to any other. For any reason as well.

Not sure if I am answering your question, but they did not ask us, cuz they did not have to. They simple linked to your article on BootsnAll as a resource for rail travel. If there users want to read it, they would come on over to BootsnAll.

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Copy that!

All I wanted to know. Thanks.

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Yep, linking is kinda permitted, deep-linking is not. Deep linking is where, the url take you to your story but not to BNA site. But courts can change their views anytime...cyberspace from a junior attorney's perspective is scary, for the partners it means big bucks

That's one that goes up and down all the time. I don't know about anything in actual law or statute as far as deep-linking goes, but there are some companies/sites that talk bollocks in their policies about deep-linking being prohibited. Some companies have even tried to state that you can't link to their site! Dusty - is this something in actual law? If so, what countries?

Just to clarify, deep-linking to Delara's article still links to BnA, because the article is on BnA. Anyone wanting to look around the rest of the site can do so with a few clicks, and can get to the homepage in one. If anything, not deep-linking is a bigger pain in the arse, because then the user has to do unneccessary work to find the very thing they were looking for.

One way this would be different: if the site had republished your article, and it wasn't through the syndication thingie through BnA, you could tell the other site either to take the article down, or to pay you for it being up there. The article is yours and is copyrighted to you; they do you no favors by having it up there without your permission or without giving you compensation.

Cheers, Anthony

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One of the major problems with deep linking is when it comes to images.

Last year I made the mistake of deep linking an image to the front page of a climbing website I was doing news for. The climbing site was pulling several million hits a month and the site I linked to was fairly small. Needless to say they were noticing the bandwidth increase on their server and sent us an email asking us to remove it.

Let's say I link my avatar to a Google thumbnail. Every time anyone loads a page here bootsnall has to pull the image from google's site. On smaller sites that can be a drain on small bandwidth limits and that's generally where the problem lies.

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Ya, I have that problem on my site where people link to my advertising banners instead of copying them to their server...

Messes up my site stats too...

Sorry for the digression