Re[2]: Is framing theft?

["Walker, Arlen P" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM>]

     As I remember, several people on the list provided HTML code that
     would get rid of any frames when a page is accessed.  Presumably this
     ISP has found a way around it?

Apparently the framers dropped the frames around those particular
newspapers soon after the lawsuit was filed. The fact the lawsuit continues
makes me suspect the plaintiffs are out this time to establish a legal
precedent.

As for Mark's XML vision: The practice of collecting publicly available
facts and repackaging them has been with us for as long as facts have been
around. I'd simply ask any XML-based usage be put to the same test any
low-tech application of the principle is. If you and I write papers which
cover the same facts, there's no big deal. OTOH, if my paper copies word
for word your presentation of those facts, then you've got a legitimate
bone to pick with me.

In the example, if Jennifer puts enough extra work into the XML report
she's creating for public consumption so as to make it a fresh work based
on publicly available facts, then more power to her. If she uses XML merely
to steal someone else's work, she should be shut down. The tool isn't
relelvant; it's what's done with it that counts.


Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224

Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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