Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Re: Copyright and Wolfram Alpha. WAS Re: An early web 3.0 search engine is out

I would like to know how they feel they can copyright a fact? For
example if I enter 1 +1 into alpha and get back the answer 2 that is a
fact and facts can not be copyrighted under U.S. law.

Greg


On 20/05/2009, at 6:40 AM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote:

> I just came across this article in Groklaw regarding Wolfram Alpha
> and their terms of service, which are different than any other
> search service out there. The short version: WA defines itself as a
> computational service, not a search engine. So, WA claims copyright
> over the results of searches performed using its service.
>
> See http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090518204959409 for
> more details.
>
> Cheers,
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> Bill
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