On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:07:00PM -0500, Al wrote:
> Not a lawyer but when you put something onto a web page you have
> conformed to a well known pattern that would expect an action to take
> place. For example if I put a stack of leaflets on the counter of a
> local store that said "Rumage sale next Week" and gave an address of
> where to go I do not think that you would have much luck charging
> someone who took a leaflet with stealing. Even though the leaflet does
> not say "take one".
Picking up a leaflet does not involve making a copy of it.
Pulling something off of a web site involves creating a copy on your
local machine.
> Another thing that might make a difference would be some of the rulings that
> came about when Sony was sued for the personal video recorder. What rights
> do you have to record a broadcast program? Is the Internet (or part of the
> Internet's functionality) a defacto agreement to allow the copying of
> certain files (i.e. index.html /pub etc)?
Are you suggesting only certain file names are legal to browse?
--
Raul
