> However, leaving aside the question of legality, there is still the
> question of politeness. Surely, it is only good etiquette to ask the
> owner of the image copyright for permission before publishing - this
> goes for copylefted content as well.

Agree with you completely John. My queries are more related to doing 
this for profit, when the party you are linking to are trying to force 
you to pay some horrendous fee (which you can't afford) or take you to 
court if you don't stop.

A concrete example, say you are developing a paid-for financial 
application for people to keep track of all their accounts, stocks, 
pensions etc. One operation you would like to incorporate is for the 
user to see the previous performance of any of their investments. To do 
this you allow the user to click a menu option in your app and then get 
taken to the Yahoo finance web page for that particular investment. Do 
Yahoo have any legal standing to force your app to stop doing that 
behaviour?

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