Yes it is, and it is a legal gray area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of_hyperlinking_and_framing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspec

Yes it is, and it is a legal gray area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of_hyperlinking_and_framing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of_hyperlinki... http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/website-permissions/linking/ http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/website-permissions/lin... "One court found framing to be a copyright infringement because the process resulted in an unauthorized modification of the linked site. (Futuredontics Inc. v. Applied Anagramic Inc., 45 U.S.P.Q. 2d 2005 (C.D. Cal. 1998).) In another case, The Washington Post, CNN, and several other news companies sued a website, TotalNews, which framed their news content. Under the terms of a settlement agreement, TotalNews agreed to stop framing and agreed to use text-only links. While case law hasn’t developed definitive rules on the issue, a framer is more likely to be found liable for copyright (or trademark) infringement if copyrighted material is modified without authorization or if customers are confused about the association between the two sites or the source of a product or service." - See more at: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/website-permissions/linking/#linking_and_framing http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/website-permissions/lin...