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> Would you also argue that, say, indexes of literature or libraries should pay the authors money per item viewed, because the data isn't "theirs"? At least so
by DailyHN 7y ago
> Would you also argue that, say, indexes of literature or libraries should pay the authors money per item viewed, because the data isn't "theirs"?
At least someone has to pay for the book to be in a library.
- dvdkon 7y agoYes, because the author didn't make its contents available for free. Websites can do the same, and many do. They could even disallow other sites from crawling them and processing their contents through the (mostly) respected robots.txt. But publishing something for free, not forbidding crawling through well-understood mechanisms, and then demanding payment is ridiculous.