Netiquette aside, is it illegal to link to someones page without gaining their consent?
Answer It would be illegal to link and pass off the content in anyway as your own – in other areas the legal position on hyperlinking is unclear and has not been defined. Good practice would dictate that you seek permission from the Web master of the WWW site. However if you don’t seek prior permission, it is again good practice to link to the home page of that Web site. This ensures that information on that site cannot be represented out of context.
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