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Article: BBB BROUHAHA ERUPTS REGARDING HYPERTEXT LINKS TO ITS WEBSITE.
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- Online Newsletter
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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When Meir Liraz, president of several Tel Aviv, Israel-based publishing companies, and operator of the BizMove.com Website (http://www.bizmove.com) recently received an email complaint from the Council of Better Business Bureaus demanding that he remove any hypertext links to the BBB Website - he obviously saw red. - Very red. Liraz immediately fired off a BizMove press release accusing the BBB of attempting to copyright hypertext links to the BBB Website, although that was not really completely true in the BBB complaint. The BBB obviously wants to maintain its 90-year reputation, and tries to restrict -any- hypertext links from businesses or other sites except for "... ...