[rumori] ebay fights spiders; NotHarvard sues Harvard


From: Steev Hise (steevATdetritus.net)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2000 - 08:46:04 PDT


Interesting twist in intellectual property enforcement: Ebay won
an injunction to stop Bidder's Edge from crawling their site, citing
trespassing law. Some think they are going this route because they're
trying to protect the facts in their database, but facts can't be
copyrighted. Bidder's Edge is appealing.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37643,00.html

And in other news, a company called "NotHarvard" is suing Harvard:

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37883,00.html

smh

Steev Hise, Nervert
steevATdetritus.net http://detritus.net/steev
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