From: Jeff Cohen Date: 2006-03-03T07:38:59+09:00 Subject: Re: Current Temperature (#68) Christian Neukirchen wrote: > Jeff Cohen writes: > >> causing anyone else to lose revenue, then it's probably fair use. > Now, let's consider screen-scraping really is "quoting". With proper > attribution, that's fair use... IANAL. Um, I don't know about that, actually. You have to make sure you're not taking money away from the original publisher. For example, I could easily write a site which lets you type a google search into a text box. I could make the google http get call myself, scrape the html, and then present the results *without* all of the ads that usually appear in the right-hand margin. Even if I say at the top, "Results provided by Google", do you think it's ok for me to do that? I'm using Google's hard work for my benefit *and* they would lose money because of it. One reason I decided not to have ads on my hockey site (www.hawksfans.com) is because I'm scraping RSS feeds, and even though everything is clearly attributed with a link back to the original articles, I just wanted to be on the safe side. By the way, I really do think most of us doing html scrapes are doing it fairly... my apologies if I took us too far off-topic. :-) Jeff www.softiesonrails.com -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.