Australia’s copyright law breaks search engines

I was interested to hear about Phillip Ruddock and his role defending the copyright laws. Since the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with America copyright has been extended from 50 years to 70 years. It is making it difficult for those in the libraries who often have to verify copyright. Learn more about the changes in this article
An article from Boing Boing: a directory of wonderful things

RSS feed ’scraping’ is stealing! is it or isn’t it?

Check out these pages for a good article and debate on this difficult copyright issue. I wonder where Australian copyright law stands on this. Hmmm. I will have to check that out when I get some more free time.

seen originally on Breaking New Media News - Last 48 Hours - Monday Aug. 28th - Robin Good’s Latest News

Blogger says “it’s OK to steal, if they use RSS” « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger
On the Sclobleizer Blog Mgreenly says, basically, that by putting a full-text RSS feed out there it’s like giving everyone a license to copy my content and use it however they want.

Ahh, so if it’s easy to copy it’s OK to steal?

American copyright law says “not true.”

I think it is getting harder and harder to enforce the copyright laws which is one of the key factors to making laws work in the real world. It is similar to advertising on the web where people always try to ensure that you watch there ads. First there were pop ups then there were pop up blockers. People put up with banners so long as they don’t block what they really want to see. Being able to cut and paste using software apps you can filter what you see. The user/advertiser creator/copyright infringer battle continues.

Nowdays javascript is used to produce cleaner pages and customisable pages with the ads cut out. Where will it end?