P.S. hmmm... why does SearchHP.COM or whatever it is seem to be way too
beligerent (sp) for someone trying to interest me in their services?

Good question, I was wondering the same... to which I have never been to their web site... nor is this enticing me to visit it in the future...



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Toback" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Warning: 3000 slurs over at searchHP.com


> Ron Seybold writes:
>
> >Just because its legal doesn't mean it's ethical. Borrowing someone
> >else's work -- or abstracting, as your boss Paul Gillin likes to call
> >it -- should require compensation, or at the least, permission. We're
> >not in the business of providing your company with content to sell to
> >its advertisers. Especially while you use headlines that slur the
> >3000 community.
>
> Even abstracting requires at least attribution.
>
> Or perhaps, the intent was to use the less-common meaning of "abstract":
>
>   abstract, vt: ... steal, purloin...
>
>      (Webster's 9th New Collegiate Dictionary)
>
> Granted, I had to reach down into the fifth definition, but that's
> apparently just as good as the first one.
>
> >[George Thompson writes:]
> >>Summarizing the content you willing enter into
> >>the public domain is not in anyway reproducing or copying your original
> >>expression.
>
> Copyrighted content placed on a web site is *not* in the public domain.
>
> -- Bruce
>
> PS. I've also been dealing with someone stealing material from my web
> site. At least it's not my livelihood, as it is with Ron.
>
> - B
>
>
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