News Headline Services, Deep-Linking, And Subscription Content: Vin Crosbie writes about the effect of Danish deep-linking court case against Newsbooster.com, a second-generation search engine. The judge prohibited Newsbooster from offering headlined hyperlinks directly to Danish newspaper websites’ stories.

Unlike first-generation generic search engines (such as Yahoo, Google, and Lycos), Newsbooster specializes in news searches, charges a subscription fee, and provides its clients with hyperlinks via retrieval, email, or news feeds.

“Requiring permission before ever hyperlinking to other sites—even by search engines—could jeopardize the fundamental ecology of the Web. You wouldn’t own hyperlinks you place on your site. Such a ban would reduce the number of sites that could charge for content in favor of traditional media companies.”