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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Re:Ughhh, I can't freaking stand "mashup"! by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · 2007-07-10 09:04 · Score: 0, Troll

craigslist is notoriously easygoing and their terms (you can run searches but not mirror the whole damn thing) seem reasonable, so I think the way Oodle could have avoided the ban is by not pissing Craig off

Craig's gone man, sold out, walked away. I believe it was to these people.

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