Re: php pulling info from other sites

There are laws against it in many cases. However in other cases its allright. For instance in my case I'm copying graphics from amazon's site to use to link to their products. they encourage you to store the picts locally on your server. Another case is that you might be tying into sites your compnay owns. Also there is "public domain" information that you can copy legally such as if you pulled stuff from a phone book site. So obviously watch copyright laws, but technology isn't outlawed yet. On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Ed Lazor wrote: > > I hope I don't start a big flame war by bringing this up..... I was just > thinking about messages I've seen on the mailing list about people using > PHP to pull information from other websites. For example, if you want up > to the minute news on your website, you just pull the information from a > news carrier's website. Aren't there laws against this? It seems like it > would be a copyright infringement of some sort. > > -Ed > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >