Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Who owns what parts of your webpage?

Author:Eric Kidd
Posted:9/2/1999; 9:06:59 AM
Topic:Who owns what parts of your webpage?
Msg #:10459 (In response to 10448)
Prev/Next:10458 / 10460

(I'm speaking for myself, not for UserLand.)

Scrapers -- don't know about profit, the content is published, but the present a significant quantity of the original, i.e. all the headlines from a single source, and they contribute positively to the market for the original.

I've been thinking along much the same lines. The portion of the content scrapped probably affects the legality of scraping. For example, consider the daily updates page at Linux Weekly News:

http://lwn.net/daily/

This page is similar to the top-level Scripting News page. It has no headlines, just categories and one paragraph news items. Rumor also suggests that this page generates a healthy revenue stream (from the ads).

Scraping this page would probably run afoul of copyright law. You'd probably end up taking 100% of their original content, and deprive them of their advertising revenue. Similarly, scraping Slashdot for the one-paragraph summaries (not just the headlines) would not be cool.

Cheers,
Eric

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