Blog homeOh dear - I should have read my own legal disclaimer where I said “I am not a lawyer blah blah blah”…. as it seems I have got some legal advice wrong.
8 weeks ago I wrote about how Travel Weekly had quoted a lawyer regarding the necessity to get permission to link to 3rd party websites in order to guarantee protection from any future legal action. I thought this advice was a little mad and really wanted Travel Weekly to be a little less sensational and more thorough with their reporting.
Darren from Travel Rants suggested the world is going crazy and called the legal advice rubbish while another commenter wrote that its a typical lawyer response…..
Anyway, on the Register today (a UK based IT news website) we have the story of a doctor who is in danger of losing her professional status as a result of linking to a file hosted on a web server. Here is her original blog posting.
Frankly, as a web person, if anyone puts a file on a web server - whether it is known to publicly exist on the server or not - then I consider it is published. Only if there is password protection that has to be circumvented to download the file would I describe something as “unpublished” . I don’t somehow think that I will be called in to be an expert witness when this goes to court…..
So that shows you - I am not a lawyer….
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