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Usually, yes: linking to another site (with the headline and the link
to the article itself) is not only usually legal, but most sites like
it when their news are being linked. There are, however, exceptions to
this rule, and it is usually noted on the potentially linked site
itself: "please don't link us without permission", or something like
that.
"All of the recent court decisions appear to reaffirm the right to link
without permission (although it may in some cases be qualified by issues
related to a perceived intent to deceive the viewer as to source and
ownership, and/or to the legality of the linked-to information), and I
hope most of us agree that that right needs to be defended. I suspect
that failure to exercise a right undermines it (in fact if not in law),
and that in the current legal climate there is in fact no significant
risk associated to linking without permission provided the intent is not
to deceive or to divert credit."
(SOURCE: Alan Cooper, "Best Practices re "Deep Linking"" , GigaLaw,
<http://www.gigalaw.com/archives/0206/gigalaw-discuss-0206-00071.html>).
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