[pct-l] News links

[blisterfree at isp01.net (Brett)]

I say "in a sense" because the act of linking to websites 
containing duped material in violation of copyright happens 
all the time, is accepted, unavoidable in search engines, 
and can't really be regulated, however legal it may be.

http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/cyber/cyberlaw/10law.html

- blisterfree

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www.simblissity.net



>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.
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>> 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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>> - blisterfree (tm)
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