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> I’d also removed the posts that were obviously copyrighted. I'm not a lawyer, but in American copyright law, anything published is assumed copyrighted by som
by humanrebar 10y ago
> I’d also removed the posts that were obviously copyrighted.
I'm not a lawyer, but in American copyright law, anything published is assumed copyrighted by someone, though it may not be clear exactly who.
I'm especially not an international copyright lawyer, so I can't say how typical that is. Point being, you'll get in legal trouble for doing this. You might win a lawsuit if what you are scraping is not copyrightable (raw facts).
Anyway, OP might not be in the US, so maybe all this doesn't apply, but it's generally good manners to ask someone before you copy their work, yes.
- ClassyJacket 10y agoSame is true in Australia. Copyrights are not registered. You just automatically own the copyright to anything you write unless there's a specific reason not to. You don't have to go register it, you don't have to put a copyright notice. You own the copyright as soon as you create it.
- jorams 10y agoBecause of the Berne Convention[1], that's how it works in the vast majority of the world. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
- mskvsk 10y ago> it's generally good manners to ask someone before you copy their work, yes This is what I do most of the time, if it's possible, given the environment the service operates in. I encourage people to learn about it first, and only after that to jump into conclusions.
- staticautomatic 10y agoI believe that in the US you don't have to register the copyright, but if you don't, then you can only recover statutory infringement damages in a lawsuit.
- brudgers 10y agoGoogle is in the US. The rest of this post is left as an exercise for the reader.