[WikiEN-l] Google faking semantics

Anthony wikilegal at inbox.org
Wed Jan 3 22:01:04 UTC 2007


On 1/3/07, Gurch <matthew.britton at btinternet.com> wrote:
> So Google has basically created a database of all Wikipedia's infoboxes,
> and is serving up entries from them as search results on its website?
> Does this count as mirroring our content? Are they in compliance with
> whatever rules apply to whatever it is they're doing?
>
Facts aren't copyrightable, and even to the extent any of this was
found copyrightable it would almost surely be fair use.

Anthony



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