mi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just want to look at all the advertising of many login pages, and have (also
> search - ) forms pre-configured.
> Consequently i went on storing the pages now locally (outside wwwoffle) and
> trimmed them to my needs,
> cut off useless stuff, fill in the right fileds, some nicer layout. I'm curious
> to see what possibilities there are to have a faster and customized access. Now
> suddenly i wondered if this could conflict with copyright.
> Since i use GPL software, this question did not occur to me before.
> Could caching of web content infringe on copyright ?
All web browsers have a built-in cache that pages are stored in when
they are viewed. There are also very many caching proxy servers
operated by ISPs and companies. I don't think that caching a file can
itself be a copyright problem. You may need to prove that it is a
temporary intermediate copy and not a permanent copy though.
> What about caching plus modifying - may i deliver modified pages from a (proxy)
> server,
> to a LAN, and to the public ?
When you start modifying copyrighted pages then the question is more
interesting. With web pages what you download from the internet is
the source code (HTML) and not the final product (visual image of
page). Different browsers will display the same HTML in different
ways, this is because HTML is a markup language and not a page layout
language. I don't think that the act of displaying a page in a
browser and making a derivative version that way would be a problem.
Many browsers will also allow you to modify the page that you see
anyway, for example Mozilla has options to choose fonts to override
the HTML or colours to use for text and ignore the HTML colours. It
can also block images, javascript and popups. There are differences
between what Mozilla allows you to do and what WWWOFFLE does, but not
much. I also don't see the problem here and there are no cases
against Mozilla users for doing this.
If you were to modify web pages, either manually, with a browser or
with WWWOFFLE, and then provide them to other people there might be a
problem. Even if you were to make them publicly available without
modifying them then it might be a problem.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.8/user.html
