Re: php pulling info from other sites

From: Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:07:00 +0000
Subject: Re: php pulling info from other sites
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What about using php to send a query to a search engine and then parsing the results and displaying them on your site? Would this be considered copyright infringement? Anyone have any opinions on this? -- S t e p h e n L o g a n slogan@stephenlogan.com 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 > > >

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