Jonathon W. G. Wills

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Jonathon W.G. Wills, is a Scottish journalist.

He is most famous as involved in a 1997 lawsuit brought against him as publisher of The Shetland News. The plaintiff in the case, The Shetland Times, accused Wills of stealing news stories from their site via the use of hyperlinks. Wills bypassed the format that the Times used to publish news articles from its website — stories on web pages, extensively interspersed with advertisements.

Wills was also the first student Rector of the University of Edinburgh, a position he came into in 1972.

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• The Shetland News
• Shetland Times
• Editors Feud Over Whether Linking Is Stealing article from the New York Times
• Scottish link suit settled news story from CNet regarding suit settlement.

Academic offices
Preceded by Kenneth Allsop	Rector of the University of Edinburgh 1972 – 1973	Succeeded by Gordon Brown