They are going to have a hard time making that stick, in some cases. It is pretty clear that when you take somebody¹s content and use it in something else then that is a potential breach of copyright. We have been there before with Scratch and sampling. However, a lot of mash-ups do not involve the appropriation of other¹s content but rather the linking together of the various functionalities of things employing protocols of some kind. Here I am thinking of how you can mash up things like Flickr and Google Maps using GPS protocols. You are not appropriating the two appplications in question but simply employing their functionality to create a third potentiality.
However, another issue does become apparent here. Is the user created content on web 2.0 sites like facebook copyrighted? If so then it would be illegal to use this material in such a mash-up. Regards Simon On 5/3/09 10:48, "bob catchpole" <bobcatchp...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > UK opposes copyright exemptions for mash-ups... > http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=9838 > > Bob > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ si...@littlepig.org.uk www.littlepig.org.uk AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
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