[pct-l] News links

[mellowmarky at cox.net (Mark Wright)]

I don't get it. How does Google infringe copyrights? If you're  
referring to the little snippet from the page they link to, such a  
short excerpt falls under fair use.


Mark

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On Jan 7, 2005, at 4:24 PM, Brett wrote:

> In a sense, Google infringes on copyrights millions of times every  
> day. All original written material is theoretically, and  
> automatically, copyrighted to its original author. But an author who  
> expects to keep his or her material truly proprietary knows better  
> than to place it online. Thus, we get news for free, but we pay for  
> books. (And when we don't get news for free, we use Google to find the  
> story somewhere else. :)
>
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