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I haven't heard of a single country in which people need your permission to link to a website

This is subject still awaiting decision. There has been at least one high profile lawsuit, TicketMaster v. Microsoft, over this subject. The suit was eventually settled after two years passed, so unfortunately there was never a court decision in the case.

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by delegatrix (Scribe) on May 29, 2002 at 12:25 UTC
    Yes, this case law is emerging. Here is a recent article about a newspaper suing over someone linking to their site.

    Also according to Wired, Tickets.com won the case against Ticketmaster with the judge ruling "Hyperlinking does not itself involve a violation of the Copyright Act. There is no deception in what is happening. This is analogous to using a library's card index to get reference to particular items, albeit faster and more efficiently."

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