Vertical Search Engines and Copyright

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @08:20AM from the in-the-aggregate dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am a big fan of Oodle, the online classifieds aggregator. I was disheartened when Craigslist announced that they would block Oodle from their site in late 2005 (old link), as I find their service very handy. I came across this page at the site of an aggregator of freelance job openings that summarizes the arguments around the legality of meta search engines and mashup-like sites and I found myself wondering if Oodle could have avoided the ban. There is an interesting argument there that seems to undermine copyright claims of user-generated content compilations. Are mashups legal? How does this affect sites like Digg or YouTube?"

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I hate vertical search engines by Anonymous Coward · 2007-07-10 08:22 · Score: 0, Funny

I just can't get the hang of typing in a downwards direction.
1. Re:I hate vertical search engines by Anonymous Coward · 2007-07-10 08:43 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  The Horizontal Experience is still the best.
2. Re:I hate vertical search engines by dotpavan · 2007-07-10 08:56 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I am Japanese, you insensitive clod!
Re:Digg and YouTube are mashups? by RingDev · 2007-07-10 09:23 · Score: 2, Funny

Damn it. Not again!

-Rick

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