[REBOL] Re: Other People's Stuff
From: dness:home at: 11-Jul-2001 15:02
[Alan_Otterstad--mikronvinyl--com] wrote:
> nice website but i wonder about something?
> isn't the content you are borrowing copyrighted material????
>
....
> The thing I am learning to enjoy about REBOL is it quickly allows me to
> build web pages using content from other web pages.
>
> Check out http://www.fargonews.com as an example.
>
> The headlines are "borrowed" from Yahoo! and the music jukebox plays music
> "borrowed" from mp3.com
>
Well, it's a `fine line' isn't it.
I doubt if there is a problem (so long as appropriate attribution is forwarded), as
it strikes me as particularly difficult to break down any potential legal liability
between:
(1) whoever wrote the browser;
(2) REBOL
(3) whoever wrote the rebol code;
(4) whoever wrote the `transport mechanisms'
(5) the ISP involved in both sending and receiving;
etc. etc. etc.
so litigating it all might prove to be an expensive proposition.
Of course, given `The Supremes' willingness to engage in oddly
constructive logic none of us will know _until_ a case actually
gets docketed and fought.
As to the specific site, I found Opera handled it just fine, but it died
rather ingloriously on two different NetScape systems that I tried it on.
I have no idea, of course, if it is something `special' about my instillation or
something else, but it at least happened on more than just one system...
