How do I make an iframe display just one defined area of a page on another domain?

[Mike Storer]

I want my readers to see just one certain paragraph of a page that doesn't belong to. It's a paragraph on a page owned by AgraCon, the American food manufacturing giant.

Firstly, I'd like to know how to do this just for the fun of knowing, but also because this company is downright scary and has all kinds of copyright rules.
So secondly, does anyone know if it's technically illegal to open a small portal to another domain and show the text? After all, it isn't reprinting, it's just directing your readers there, right?
Anyone know the laws on this?

If I've made you curious to the point where you can't stand it, my point of interest is here:

navigate to:

http://www.conagrafoods.com/consumer/healthyliving/index.jsp

Exactly half way down the page is a link which expands a division which reads:

Ketchup Innovation Comes Naturally for Hunt's [+]

If you expand that by clicking on the [+], you'll see the paragraph I'd like my readers to read.

In case you're interested: I'm a diabetic trying to help Americans understand why we currently have a dire epidemic of both obesity and diabetes and exorbitant national medical costs due to their complications.
The food megalith AgraCon, which doesn't even provide a physical mailing address on their sites, wants Americans to believe they've made a gallant stride toward better health by replacing
high fructose corn syrup with sugar [I suppose they mean sucrose], which is effectively of no benefit.

Michael Storer, Los Angeles

[Bear Bibeault]

Taking a portion of someone else's page and displaying it on your own is not "directing your readers", and while IANAL, it's most likely a violation of copyright laws.

If you want to "direct your readers" to another page, use a link.

Now, including a quote on your own page with attribution is another matter that I'll let the legal experts handle.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Mike,
Ethically you should just link to them not try to secretly embed the text. I don't know if it's illegal - I'm not a lawyer - but it seems like it would be. Copying copyrighted content without permission isn't a good idea.

And second, no I'm pretty sure there isn't a technical way to do what you want. Other than copying the text by hand. Which as stated above isn't a good idea.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Bear Bibeault wrote:Taking a portion of someone else's page and displaying it on your own is not "directing your readers", and while IANAL, it's most likely a violation of copyright laws.

IANAL = I am not a lawyer. On using real words . I had to google it.

[Bear Bibeault]

Busted!