>From my untested knowledge of copyright, the 10% rule applies to the internet (ie no more than 10% of a publication) and that 10% has to be copied for a valid reason. My first impression would be that site-a is infringing on site-b's copyright, assuming they belong to different entities as far as intellectual copyright goes, and there is no valid agreement between them.
Legality in civil cases such as this is measured in terms of what site- b considers to be his / her rights, so your first step would be to check it out with the owners of site-b. Even if you find by going to court that you have a legal right to publish their stuff it can still cost you a lot of money to get to that decision, which is why people generally respect each other's intellectual rights. On Jan 12, 9:19 am, ".Net2Php" <[email protected]> wrote: > If site-a is scraping site-b (in such a way that site-a is not causing > an overload on site-b's servers), then displaying the scraped > information on site-a, wherein site-a is not claiming the scraped > information to be its own (e.g. site-b is cited as the source, linked > to it, etc.), would site-a be doing anything illegal? Assume both > sites are owned and operated in New Zealand. > > In connection to my question, does anyone here know of a lawyer that > specializes in intellectual property rights, etc. here in NZ? > Thttp://groups.google.com/hanks! -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
