Re: php pulling info from other sites
| From: | R. P. Channing Rodgers, M.D. | Date: | Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:45:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php pulling info from other sites | ||
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> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:21:59 -0700
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> From: Ed Lazor <osmosis@atfantasy.com>
> Subject: [PHP] php pulling info from other sites
>
>
. [...]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
It all depends on the terms under which the originator of the
information makes it available. Some sites are happy to have you
do this, some places conditions (like including a GIF file pointing
to their service). But you are right that you can't just do this
willy-nilly!
Cheerio, Rick Rodgers