On 29/01/14 13:15, scott wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

If the web page is in the public domain, there is nothing to stop you
linking there. However, you must make it clear that Yahoo (to use your
example) are the owners of that linked page. You would probably have to
make this clear before the user clicked the button. Something like
'Click here to see Yahoo Finance results' would suffice.

John
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