Re: php pulling info from other sites

You'd have to ask a real intellectual property rights lawyer about this, but I suspect that the originator could indeed claim that the list of URLs that its search engine finds constitutes intellectual property, and that unauthorized copying could be illegal. This may be a right that most search companies forego voluntarily, or perhaps simply realize is not worth the trouble to enforce... Cheerio, Rick Rodgers > From slogan@stephenlogan.com Thu Jul 20 18:01:58 2000 > Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:03:23 +0000 (CDT) > From: Stephen Logan <slogan@stephenlogan.com> > To: "R. P. Channing Rodgers, M.D." <rodgers@nlm.nih.gov> > Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 > > > >