asp4bunnies - 2:26 pm on Jun 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

Who threatened you with what regarding this as I supsect they were merely sabre rattling. Scotland does have copyright laws (along with much of the rest of the world) which are mainly covered by lisc agreements. However, snippets/headlines can be used especially with some newspapers.

Noone threatened me. I'm basing this on early Internet case law in which a scottish newspaper succesfully sued another newssite for copying the headline wording only and linking to the actual articles using the headline.

Here's the case (Shetland Times vs Willis):
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I suspect at that point you would only have a case if you could show it was hurting you financially. Not that I like it, I don't want to even be associated with that kind of a site.

Sorry, I'm still not seeing what's wrong about copying a sentence or two to describe the article I'm linking to. This isn't copying the content for "stealing's" sake. It's more along the lines of quoting a source. In any case, Google news does it, yet you associate yourself with Google by being a part of the adsense program...