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I think it comes down to use. Web crawlers like Google are fine because they index the web and then the search engine directs users to the original source. If i
by chongli 4y ago
I think it comes down to use. Web crawlers like Google are fine because they index the web and then the search engine directs users to the original source. If instead Google recycled all the content they crawled and hosted everything on google.com while scrubbing all attributions from the pages then they’d fall afoul of copyright law (specifically the moral rights [1]).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
- kossTKR 4y agoThey already do though. I've read several articles about people's blogs plummeting after google adopted their text into an "info box", same as the Google News controversy a few years ago where newspapers lost traffic. It's all bad. They really should pay the "little man" not just publishers with lawyer budgets - same with AI.
- chongli 4y agoThat's a separate issue and definitely a problem! There's no way they would get away with that if they were a small company. The fact that they can and do so routinely is yet another piece of damning evidence that our laws are broken because they don't apply equally to regular people and big corporations.
- rootlocus 4y agoGoogle has stolen data from pages and showed it without attribution on their search page: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20190716/109793/HHRG-116-JU05-20190716-SD015.pdf https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20190716/109793/HHRG...