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Subject:
About Search engine and web contents copyright issue
Category: Relationships and Society > Law Asked by: airconlin-ga List Price: $10.00 |
Posted:
21 Mar 2003 04:28 PST
Expires: 20 Apr 2003 05:28 PDT Question ID: 179102 |
I've a question about search engine copyright issue, I know the news and factor can be quota as "fair use" ike google search engine, it give all the page a "cache", it's should be carefully consider all the legal matter, but I just want to know, what is the relevant clauses in the law allow the search engine "cache", are there a time limitation for the cache? or it can cache forever? for the google news, why they donot provide cache function? |
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Re: About Search engine and web contents copyright issue
From: justaskscott-ga on 22 Mar 2003 11:13 PST |
I cannot speak on behalf of Google or provide legal advice. (See the disclaimer at the bottom of this page.) My impression is that there is no definitive answer to this question. On the one hand, some people have posted comments on the Web stating their opinion that caching of web pages (on Google or the Internet Archive Wayback Machine) is a copyright problem. On the other hand, some people have stated opinions that it is not a problem; moreover, it does not seem that any court has ruled that it is (or is not) a problem. A case that comes up in many of these comments is Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp., which involved copying of images. Commenters on both sides have used this case to support their opinions. "Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation" (Feb. 6, 2002) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/C38AD9E9A70DB15188256B5700813AD7/$file/0055521.pdf You might find it interesting to read this decision, and to search on Google or other search engines for the words kelly, arriba [or ditto, the name of the web site], and variations of the word "cache", in order to read comments relating to this case. |
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Re: About Search engine and web contents copyright issue
From: tisme-ga on 22 Mar 2003 11:21 PST |
Google and the Wayback machine (http://www.archive.org) will gladly exclude a certain website or cache if a standard robots.txt file is created on the website to tell robots to stay away from listing, archiving or caching content. Given that it is so easy to set up this file (which will not only prevent content from being on Google, but on other services such as Yahoo etc.), I don't see why anyone would bother to sue Google when they can fix it in a matter of minutes. For an example of a robots.txt file see: ://www.google.com/robots.txt Google news does not cache probably because the content changes so often, and it is the preference of news companies not to have their items cached. For more information about robots.txt see: http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm |
Subject:
My concern is the clauses of law
From: airconlin-ga on 22 Mar 2003 17:36 PST |
Thank justaskscott-ga & tisme-ga's comments, What I really concern is the exactly clauses in the law. I know robots can avoided it, it just like if you lock you bicycle, it would not be taken by others but the problem is if you forget to lock you bicycle, then sb,take you bicycle a few hours, is it consider being stolen, or fair use? |
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