- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 16:09:16 -0400
- To: Max Polk <maxpolk@gmail.com>
- CC: David Kirstein <frozenice@frozenice.de>, public-webplatform@w3.org
Hi, Max- On 5/10/13 3:57 PM, Max Polk wrote: > It's all about content and brand. How willing is webplatform to let > another site consume content and present it as their own, even formatted > as copyrighted results with no attribution? > > Google for example forbids web search result data to be rendered on > another site where it can reformat and present it as their own, just to > preserve content and brand. > > While any remote service can call the WPD API directly, to then serve it > up as its own, its a central call on behalf of all the users of that > site. It is easily identified, and if abused, blocked. > > But with cross-origin requests each user's browser is making the call on > the behalf of the permitted origin. Opening it up wide will be > interpreted as "free, unencumbered," to some. > > Just how free is the API data? Good question. My impulse is to say "totally free" since what we're looking for is the spread of good, complete, accurate information.... but our license (which is in part an obligation to our contributors) is CC-BY. Could we rig the API so that it delivers a small link back to the site (and if the query was page-specific, to the page) in the content? We want to be friendly to consumers of our content, let them restyle and reformat the attribution link in whatever way works for their use, so it would be good to explore options with them. Regards- -Doug
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