If The Ancient Greeks Had Acted This Way, Nobody Would Have Heard Of The Olympics

Via Dan Gillmor...

Take this as a lesson in how not to drive traffic to your site. :

"For your protection and ours we have established a procedure for parties wishing to introduce a link to the ATHENS 2004 website on their site. By introducing a link to the ATHENS 2004 official Website on your site you are agreeing to comply with the ATHENS 2004 Website General Terms and Conditions. In order to place a link embedded in copy interested parties should..."

Link: general terms and conditions for linking to the official site of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens

My links above violates the policy. It's pretty amazing that the 2004 Athens Olympics would even construe my linking to their linking policy as a violation! Oops! I just did it again ;-) Come and get me! This is an educational (and satirical) post. Legal rulings on hyperlinking in the USA, at least so far, confirm that I'd be fully within my rights to publish as many links as I want to the 2004 Athens Olympics as long as my intention is not to decieve people into thinking that the pages are part of my site. I'm not framing third party content, and I think that I've been pretty clear about the fact that the links go to someone else's site, so even though one of the links is a "deep link" there's no possibility of confusion.

If the Ancient Greeks had been such control freaks about intellectual property, nobody in the modern world would have ever read the Odyssey or the Iliad, or have even heard of Homer... or of the Olympics.

And oh, just for the record: anybody can link to this page, or any other page on my site. No permission required.