Ciao Abraham & TonyM I'll stick with IMDB as an example use case on copyright issues. Because I lived through problems on licensing numerous times. Because its a very good resource base where the designers from the start built in permalinks. You can link to a IMDB title as close to as "forever" as the net allows. Its the best one-stop, perennial, database made to date for movies. Most other databases for Movies on the web use its data as their starting point.
Movies are interesting in that most everything that was "released" there is, now, thankfully, data for on IMDB. That's not because of legal requirement (ISBN is legally required for published books and ISSN for journals, not so movies). It is because the creators of IMDB recognized the possibility that all movies publicly released could be catalogued. THEY created the approach. It in one sweep gave cinephiles access to the full history of cinema. It does have weaknesses within certain types of cinema where "release" is not clearly defined (e.g. African films in general and Nigeria in particular). But it is NOT a closing issue as their scope has ALSO highlighted issues in coverage that folk interested in International cinema are concerned with--and slowly they get addressed. All of this is a way of pointing to the fact IMDB need financial support FOR their project to expand. Paid licensing is important to their survival. My experience is they only get "The Hump" when commercial scrapers, across 1,000s of instances, making thousands of calls a day, are not contributing to their welfare. I do NOT think WE should be sweating this. But awareness of the issue is just basic responsibility. *I really can't see 50 users of TW scraping IMDB for a handful of records a day as being any kind of problem.* I think this previous comment applies to other scraping cases too. Best wishes Josiah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/faa6a17a-e157-4319-a4ff-12da421284d9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
