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Copyright Warning When Linking

Search Engine Watch, Friday, December 5, 2008 12:47 PM

What's your liability when linking to content? Sage Lewis provides a comical viewpoint on "how the Wal-Mart Grinch stole black Friday link love," and suggests you be careful when linking to stuff that potentially infringes on copyrights.

Why the warning? Seems that Wal-Mart had insisted that SearchAllDeals and TechCrunch take down links to Black Friday Deals that weren't supposed to be out before Nov. 24. SearchAllDeals and TechCrunch didn't publish the content. They just linked to it, he writes.

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