Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:50:38 11/16/01
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On November 16, 2001 at 11:09:12, Andrei Fortuna wrote: >On November 16, 2001 at 09:55:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On November 16, 2001 at 07:57:43, Andrei Fortuna wrote: >> >>>On November 16, 2001 at 07:20:34, Dan Andersson wrote: >>> >>>>Ony a few questions. Are you sure of the copyrights issue? Whom have you >>>>asked?Have you tought about other possible issues? It is a nice resource >though, >>>>but it might be prudent to have asked around beforehand. >>> >>>Not once did it cross my mind a thought about copyright problems. All I had in >>>mind was to write a search engine for the archives and put it online. >>>So here I am asking all CCC members : >>> 1) Does anybody has any problem with me making the CCC Archives searchable >>>(from a moral viewpoint) ? >> >>Not at all. > >Thank You ! > >>> 2) From a legal viewpoint who owns the copyright of the messages ? >> >>The original author, _always_. > >OK > >>> 3) Any other problems in connection to copyright ? >> >>Comments snipped and posted elsewhere are illegal, by copyright law, just >>as copying something from a book or magazine and posting it somewhere is also >>illegal. > >Does this category includes my search engine site ? I.e. I post messages from >icdchess and I alter them (I remove the header and color reply quotes) > >IIRC it was discussed somewhere at some point if google providing cached web >sites is legal or not, I see similarities to this case. > >Cheers, >Andrei No... what you are doing is ok... you are simply searching things we already posted here in the past. IE this is what DejaNews does. If someone were to take text from here, and publish it in a magazine (for example) they would be guilty of a copyright violation. But just reading what has already been published here is no problem...
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