Online news publishers are mad as hell about framing and certain linking by some news index sites, and they're not going to take it anymore. The most recent was Friday's missive by a U.S. law firm representing five major Japanese newspapers, imploring TotalNEWS, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company, to stop framing their sites.
Frames technology creates a window on a Web page for the viewing of other pages or other sites.
For TotalNEWS, the frame is a window to sites that users choose to link to. Meanwhile, the TotalNEWS frame remains with advertising and TotalNEWS navigation intact. Publishers claim copyright and trademark infringement, saying that frames confuse users about the origin of the information in the window, and say TotalNEWS is making money by selling advertising on the frames surrounding the on-line newspapers' own work. We feel it's false representation. TotalNEWS this summer settled with six media giants over framing sites, agreeing to stop framing the sites, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN and others.