Re: MetaSearch engines

by Ivan Hoffman <ivan(at)ivanhoffman.com>

Date:	Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:41:56 -0800
To:	"Srinivasan Ramakrishnan" <srinivar(at)md3.vsnl.net.in>, <hwg-business(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	srinivarmd3
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At 08:24 PM 11/20/00 +0530, Srinivasan Ramakrishnan wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In a previous thread on deep linking, I witnessed a great deal of discussion
>on the copyright issues. While this had got me thinking, it was with respect
>to the following:

I am tempted to ask the reason one would post such an enormously complex
legal question to this list?

>
>a) Since the data is anyway in public domain, what form of ownership do the
>search engines exercise on their results?

What gives you reason to believe that "the data is anyway in public
domain?"  Data in and of itself may not be protectable as data (phone
listings for example) but formatted data may be protected.

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