An Analysis on Different Internet Links from the Perspective of Copyright System

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1 Assistant Professor of IP Law & Cyber at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

2 PhD Student in Private Law at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

3 PhD Student in Private Law at Azad University, Science & Research Branch, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Nowadays, it is almost impossible to design a website without utilizing of links. Different types of Web links (Hyperlinks, IMG links and Frame links) circulate users on the web and refer them into places which linker had determined previously. This issue may endanger exclusive rights of intellectual property holders.
Although sometimes Links had infringed trademarks and somewhere are recognized as unfair trade practice, the most important talented point of their controversies in the intellectual property system is located under the copyright and possible infringement of its exclusive rights.
This article tries to describe technical and legal issues of various types of links and their functions and determine the rights of web page owners in this regard. In addition, this research endeavors to differentiate cases which can be considered as unconventional linking in contrast to legal linking in the light of judicial precedent and related established copy rights in the leading countries and Iranian rules specially Electronic commerce Code.
 

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