Re: Converting to standards... (sort of)

> IANAL, but wouldn't it be a copyright law violation to recreate (copy
> and publish with modifications) a site without permission? To do a
> decent job (in many aspects), you would need to use same images, same
> text, same presentation style, which would require copying of
> copyrighted things. Some say caching violates copyright law; the
> activity being discussed is probably "worse" than caching from a legal
> point of view.

I don't think this is a problem in this case--Eric's effort is clearly
an academic one where the content is necessary to illustrate a
point. This falls under the category of fair use.

Received on Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:40:12 UTC