On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Marcus Bointon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8 May 2008, at 17:00, Greg Donald wrote: > > A webservice is just a fancy buzzword for "we wrap our content in XML >> for your convenience". If it's not supposed to be public then it >> should require authentication. >> > > > So you're saying that you think all public web pages are copyright-free? This is why I earlier brought up the differentiation between the licensing of the *content* and the use of the *service*. Any public web page is implicitly letting you "use" it (access it, load the page, have your web browser cache it, etc.). This goes for a web service as well - unless it's locked behind an API key then one can assume the *service* is free to be used as you want (now, there are probably terms of use which one should be aware of). None of this means that you have anything beyond fair-use rights to the *content* of that website or web service. In this situation (Audioscrobbler), the license only applies to the *content* not the *service*. > > > Marcus > -- > Marcus Bointon > Synchromedia Limited: Creators of http://www.smartmessages.net/ > UK resellers of [EMAIL PROTECTED] CRM solutions > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk/ > > > -- Bradley Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
