Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Who owns what parts of your webpage?
Author: David Carter-Tod Posted: 9/2/1999; 9:32:46 AM Topic: Who owns what parts of your webpage? Msg #: 10466 (In response to 10459) Prev/Next: 10465 / 10467
The portion of the content scrapped probably affects the legality of scraping.Exactly. A scraper grabs 100% of the headlines from a single source, i.e. a significant chunk of content. For that reason it is a probable violation of fair use.
In contrast a web log, link or search engine shows a single headline (a fractional percentage) from a source, i.e. not a significant chunk of content.
Further, to scrape a web log is a violation, because the web log itself is an original work and the scraper is grabbing 100% of the web logger's original work.
As Jeremy B. says, of course, with permission it's fine.
David
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