Re: [syndication] (Random Thoughts) Content syndication and content "cleansing"

[Rich Manalang <rmanalan@yahoo.com>]

--- "Kevin A. Burton" <burton@relativity.yi.org>
wrote:
> Eric Bohlman wrote:
> <snip> 
> > Have you taken a look at the XML Document
> Navigation Language (XDNL) Note
> > submitted by NEC to the W3C
> (<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/xdnl>)?  It
> > addresses some similar issues.
> 
> Just breezed over it... but will check it out again.
> :)
>  
> > > Thoughts?  What is the legality here? 
> Technically it wouldn't be used
> > > to rip out advertisements but to only display
> this content to devices
> > > that couldn't originally see it anyway.
> > 
> > IANAL, but I'd have to guess that the legal issues
> are similar to those
> > surrounding a translation service like Babelfish. 
> Translation of a work
> > from one language to another is definitely a
> reserved right under US
> > copyright law; I'm not sure what the status of
> re-rendering it by proxy
> > would be (although any *editorial* transformation,
> like deleting
> > "irrelevant" navigation information, would almost
> certainly constitute
> > preparation of a derivative work and thus be
> infringing; even
> > freely-copyable documents often come with the
> restriction that they must
> > be reproduced in substantially identical form).
> 
> Yes... I guess everyone has a different opinion on
> this.  The issue here
> is would I (or the Apache Software Foundation)
> become liable or would
> the *user* become liable?  Apache is just providing
> software to the
> user.  The user would then use it to "cleanse"
> content.  It might be
> possible to sue the user but then they would be
> suing their customers.
> 
> Then again if Yahoo or someone big took Jetspeed and
> ran it as their
> Portal software with the cleansing enabled then
> might be logical that
> they would get sued if it wasn't their content.
> 
> I guess it is similar to the Napster issue. 
> Technically they aren't
> breaking any law, they are just building a network
> that happens to lend
> itself *very* well to privacy.  But isn't this
> basically the Internet
> where piracy lives? :)
> 

I think there are some potentially big risks involved
here.  For example, if I were to put up a web page
that scraped Yahoo!'s site for stock price information
and posted it on my public web page, I could see the
exchanges coming after me.  My 2 cents.

> Kevin
> 
> -- 
> Kevin A Burton (burton@apache.org)
> http://relativity.yi.org
> Message to SUN:  "Please Open Source Java!"
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> own me 50 cents.
> 


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