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John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Sat Feb 13 19:46:51 GMT 2021
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On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 12:51 PM Nico <nico at itwont.work> wrote:
Would you use the same argument against, eg. A mobile twitter client?
Twitter posts also aren't an open license. Just my 2 cents.
Twitter is pushing back extremely hard on alternative clients, claimingthat they cause "consumer confusion", and they may end up becoming extinct.Medium has blocked access to its API altogether, although existing APIusers are grandfathered in. Neither site allows screen scraping.
This content might be a nice-to-have on Gemini, but the downside isextremely high: in the U.S., the penalty for willful copyright infringementcan be as high as $150,000 *per document*, plus court fees and legalcosts.
When I worked at Reuters, this was an excellent way of getting newcustomers: google for a sentence from one of our published articles, seewhich if any were on unlicensed sites, and contact the site owners. It wasa lot cheaper for them to license the content than to pay those damages.(In fact, almost all of the companies said that they did not know thecontent had to be licensed, and they would much rather license it than stophosting it.)
I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
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