Uncle Arthur sometimes has to take up the hard subjects with you. Today is one of those times. We must understand time travel to more fully grasp the power of links - especially for legal linking to other articles and feeds. Let us begin with a statement of the problem at hand.

The Associated Press is only one company that has made a lawsuit for copyright infringement. The practice that they feel is illegal is one that many websites and blogs use each day - showing a fragment or a headline from an article and adding a link to the full article. This is a reminder of earlier days when article aggregators feeds were legally tested for linking. And search engines do this everyday.

Now bear with me - because change creates tension in any situation in which it is occurring. Some traditional news agencies feel infringed upon by internet articles aggregation feeds. Is this worry based in logical or legal reasoning? Change occurs over time - and links are a direct spatial reference to other spatial occurrences.

Time travel is not only possible, it is essential to daily life. Time travel is not what you see in sci-fi movies. In actuality there are many forms of time travel - into the past, future and parallel variations of every different time continua. Time is an infinitely elastic mode, not to be confused with space, and infinitely elastic state.

Questions arise, like: Is it legal to use headlines of articles without permission from copyright holders?

Is it legal to publish lead-ins, taglines or short phrases from articles without permission from copyright holders?

Is it legal to create a business that sorts publications and sends referrals to articles to others without permission from copyright holders?

Is it legal to make marketing statements about others’ articles like “hot news” when you create a link to an article?

When these questions are seen through the viewpoint of time travel continua the questions become much more understandable. Questions like “when” and “if” take on the dimensions of “ever” or “never.” And then you must look at
the problem of “in which universe?” And the concern of with or without prescience (before) or postscience (after) the article is conceived or ends. If you agree that a copyright has no end then it could be said to be infinite - which is arguably nonmeasurable or is arguably nonexistent.

So let’s look at the real question - “Does a link hurt anybody or any copyright?” Answer me that and Uncle Arthur will support your findings every single time - whether you are right or wrong because you cannot conceivably be in the
same time and space at the same time ever again. You must change just as time and the universe change in a subconstant way.

Linking the Future,
Arthur “Time Traveler” Browning