Google Wins a Court Battle 272
Gosalia wrote to let us know about an article which opens with: "In a legal win for Google, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a writer who claimed the search giant infringed on his copyright by archiving a Usenet posting of his and providing excerpts from his Web site in search results." Thankfully, we can all still read Usenet articles on Google as well as other archive services.
Good for Google! (Score:5, Informative)
But without getting too off track, I'm glad they won this battle. Because of their line of work and the innovative new steps they take, they're bound to step on a few toes. I just hope we don't smother them in too many lawsuits, both as indivduals and as a government.
Interesting Products... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Gtalk (Score:5, Informative)
Google is in the right. (Score:5, Informative)
* E-mail header that prevent google groups from archiving your message: "X-No-Archive: Yes".
* Meta tags: <META NAME="Googlebot" CONTENT="nofollow">
* Hyperlinks <a href="http://google.com" rel="nofollow">
* robots.txt file with proper syntax
* Google's link removal page: http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html
Re:Strange Decision (Score:2, Informative)
Sure. Now, if you read the fine print of you agreement with your ISP or news server provider, you'll find that you almost certainly agreed to let them redistribute any of your usenet postings without restriction. Those are the terms you chose.
I suggest next time you just follow my suggestion and simply don't post your dubious opinions on usenet if you don't want them automatically reproduced.
Re:Gtalk (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Cash Grab Suit? (Score:5, Informative)
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On 17 March 2006, onedotzero (926558) wrote:
Re:Cash Grab Suit? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:disturbing asymmetry (Score:4, Informative)
So in short, Google archives all Usenet posting where the author doesn't say that he doesn't want it archived. Therefore the analogy would be that you can record, archive and republish any music and other programming unless the author says he doesn't want this. And indeed, this is almost the current copyright situation. The difference is that the default for radio broadcasts is the reverse: Unless the author explicitly allows you to rebroadcast, you may not.
I guess if the default would be changed, then the only difference would be that radio stations would start to explicitly say all the time that you may not rebroadcast their material. Which I don't consider an improvement over the current situation.
Public forum posting (Score:3, Informative)
Now, if you use the no cache header
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-No-Archive [wikipedia.org]
and claim copyright, you MAY have an argument...
Re:Cash Grab Suit? (Score:3, Informative)
Newsflash - Linux distributions usually contain large quantities of copyrighted media. And that doesn't make them illegal.
Please refrain from saying "copyrighted" when you mean "unlicensed", as this helps spread the dangerous myth that content under free licenses is somehow different from other copyrighted content.
Legally binding? (Score:3, Informative)
All that seems to do is prevent them from going to gmail. It doesn't seem like there's anything to prevent anyone from saving any content to anywhere that is not gmail.
As someone else pointed out, use PGP or don't complain when your content is spied upon.