Re: php pulling info from other sites

In my case I wasn't asking about pulling news stories or any other content owned by the search engine. I would only be pulling the results of a search and reformating them to be displayed on another site. Is this not how all the meta search engines work? I don't think the search engine owns the links it has stored. What about pulling the results from a meta search engine? -- S t e p h e n L o g a n slogan@stephenlogan.com On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, R. P. Channing Rodgers, M.D. wrote: > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > 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 > > Copyright applies to intellectual property -- in the case of writing, > it's the *language* that is copyrighted, not the format in which it is > presented. Additionally, although it is > considered best form to apply the standard copyright notice to > materials ("Copyright 2000 John Doe, All Rights Reserved"), there is > an implicit copyright for the author even if she/he does not do so. > So reuse of online news feeds in the manner you describe would be a > copyright infringement unless the originator specifically > allows you to do this... > > Cheerio, Rick Rodgers >