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Web linking wrangle



>From "New Product Gossip of the Day [4/29/97]"

>** Web linking wrangle
>
>Centering on an issue at the heart of the Internet,
>telephone and online-ticket seller Ticketmaster claims
>Microsoft's link between the pages of its Seattle
>Sidewalk site and Ticketmaster's site, makes
>commercial use of Ticketmaster's name." In the
>lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court,
>Ticketmaster is demanding monetary damages. The
>company's president said Microsoft is using the link
>"to traffic off our good name ... suck up our content
>and keep the advertising revenues."

Regards,
Chris