Posts Tagged ‘Creative-Commons’

Using Creative Commons to Stop Scraping

By Jonathan Bailey • Jun 5th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News, Prevention

Many sites, including this one, have expressed concerns that CC licenses may be encouraging or enabling scraping.
The problem seems to be straightforward. If a blog licenses all of their content under a CC license, then a scraper that follows the terms of said license is just as protected as a human copying one or [...]



Update: Fark’s Copyright Policy

By Jonathan Bailey • May 8th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News

Following the controversy over its copyright policy last week, Fark has changed the wording of its policy to correct the errors in the first draft.
The new policy, which is much longer than the first, no longer attempts to claim copyright ownership of the submissions, but rather, says the following regarding works submitted to the site: [...]



Internet Archive Ruled Inadmissible

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 23rd, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News

A New York Federal judge has ruled that printouts from the Internet Archive are inadmissible as evidence in a court of law unless the party trying to enter it can produce “authenticating testimony from someone familiar with how the pages were created�.
The judge’s order officially struck the pages from the record and removed the printouts [...]