Theresa Kehoe wrote: > So how come Mozilla's Firefox EULA does not lay claim to own everything > I submit, post, or display on or through their services? > > http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/legal/eula/firefox-en.html > > If it is just copyright law, then surely Mozilla Firefox would be sued > out of existence in a day?
I suppose because Mozilla isn't in the search business. Even if you change Firefox's settings to remove CSS, disable JavaScript, etc, it's something you do and not Firefox. Even so, it could be considered copyright violation to do so. Any kind of alteration like that can be argued as a derivative work. Because Google and other search engines are constantly arranging lists (search results) and ordering them in certain ways and displaying them in certain ways and translating them and creating thumbnails ..., they have to be really careful. Someone could easily sue. They may not win, but according to copyright law, as I understand it (and I'm not a lawyer), search engines are constantly creating derivatives of the "originals" and so valid lawsuits are possible if Google or other search engines do not defend itself. That's why they also have to respect robot.txt files. Edit: just read that page Scott linked to and their UPDATE section explains it just as I was thinking: "we have the proper license to display those documents to the selected users and format documents properly for different displays" Sean --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
