From Boing Boing:
TBL on links and the law. Tim Berners-Lee anticipated NPR‘s absurd link policy in 1997, in this paper on Links and the Law:
The intention in the design of the web was that normal links should simply be references, with no implied meaning. A normal hypertext link does NOT necessarily imply that * One document endorses the other; or that * One document is created by the same person as the other, or that * One document is to be considered part of another.Link Discuss (Thanks, Patrick!)
I’d actually thought about looking to see if there was something that TBL wrote about this.