Re: php pulling info from other sites

The gray area of internet law is being defined everyday. The Internet Law Journal http://www.tilj.com/ has tons (well figuratively) of information about internet law and how it affects programs, and website design. Its a great place to spend time reading about how your programs could make you financially liable. You'll be surprised (at least I was). Robert V. Zwink http://zwink.levitate.org The opinions expressed in the above email do not constitute an endorsement and are provided on an "As is" basis as provided by the State of Ohio and other appreciators of run-on sentences. : ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Logan" <slogan@stephenlogan.com> To: "Ed Lazor" <osmosis@atfantasy.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] php pulling info from other sites > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- > 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 >