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Jason Levine
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View Source Infringes Copyright

This is too hilarious (yet at the same time, very sad). Apparently, Dozier Internet Law believes that the copyright on their website allows them to forbid anyone from viewing the HTML code on their website. They also forbid linking to their site without permission.

So, according to them, I'm breaking the law if I say that I went to »www.cybertriallawyer.com/ and clicked View->Page Source.

How stupid can you get?

(Credit where credit is due: I read this on »pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2007/···gre.html )

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Re: View Source Infringes Copyright

Here's the user agreement with this stuff... »www.cybertriallawyer.com/user-agreement it is kind of funny. Whatever you do, DON'T hit view-source when you get to their site or you are breaking the terms.

Search for this to see the good stuff:
quote:
As you may know, you can view the HTML code with a standard browser. We do not permit you to view such code since we consider it to be our intellectual property protected by the copyright laws. You are therefore not authorized to do so.

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Re: View Source Infringes Copyright

These guys need to go back to law school.. Copyright does not give them the right to prevent viewing, as the name implied Copyright is about making copies, not viewing or listening to something

since the html code is already downloaded you your computer when you visit the page, you are not engaging in any further 'copying' in any sense when you select 'view source'

edit: after actually reading the link (shock horror) I see it's about the implicit user agreement not about copyright really, but still on shaky ground to say the least

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said by ihaddsl See Profile :

edit: after actually reading the link (shock horror) I see it's about the implicit user agreement not about copyright really, but still on shaky ground to say the least
Exactly.. by using their website you agree not to view their source. It's interesting... I think I'll copy their user agreement to my website.. without their stupid link of course.
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said by Dersgniw See Profile :

Here's the user agreement with this stuff... »www.cybertriallawyer.com/user-agreement it is kind of funny. Whatever you do, DON'T hit view-source when you get to their site or you are breaking the terms.

Search for this to see the good stuff:
quote:
As you may know, you can view the HTML code with a standard browser. We do not permit you to view such code since we consider it to be our intellectual property protected by the copyright laws. You are therefore not authorized to do so.

Oh crud, I click on the link then accidentally hit view source. I hear sirens now. Am I in trouble?

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said by Dersgniw See Profile :

Whatever you do, DON'T hit view-source when you get to their site or you are breaking the terms.
Well crap... I did it just before I saw your message.

I guess I am in trouble now!!


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They have an ugly website, who want to copy it ?

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My browser is "viewing" the source in order to display that page. So by visiting that web site, I'm causing my browser to break that law. They might as well have "reading this sentence is against the terms of use for this site" in their copyright statement. It makes about as much sense.

I can understand protecting things, but that's overboard. It's also rather pompous. These guys seem like putzes. Let's make lots of blustery threats and scare the uninitiated. I'm sure there's a grandma in Peoria losing sleep over this, but elsewhere life goes on unchanged.
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Re: View Source Infringes Copyright

Those guys could have saved a lot of time by replacing all that verbiage with:
said by what they really meant :

We really don't "get it" about the internet, and we didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

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This isn't surprising, read the tag line on the main page: We Protect the Reputations and the Intellectual Property of Businesses on the Web.

Mr Dozier is a scumbag lawyer. Nothing to see here, move along.
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Wow. Just when you thought they couldn't get any slimier, it turns out that they are proud spammer lawyers also! »www.cybertriallawyer.com/commerc···ail-spam

Maybe the prohibition against linking to or viewing the source code of their site is a good thing. If no one (including Google) linked to their site, maybe they would go out of business.

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Probably trying to setup Google for some sort of lawsuit when the spider comes a-knockin..
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however isnt there a text file you can put in your main web directory that basicly tells google not to index you if you want to remain unlisted?
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Jon
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quote:
What is Website Copyright Infringement?

Copyright law protects original creative work. When you take someone's work, that act can be copyright infringement. On a website, creative works can include:

* The words used (text).
* The graphics and images used.
* The data present.
* The HTML code, other code, and scripts.

How can you Copyright HTML code?

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said by Jon See Profile :

How can you Copyright HTML code?
HTML, like any code, can be copyrighted. You don't copyright individual small pieces, but larger chunks that are unique to what you are trying to do. For instance, I cannot copyright "like any code", but I can copyright this entire paragraph. In fact, the act of writing this causes it to be copyrighted (but not registered).

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said by McSummation See Profile :

said by Jon See Profile :

How can you Copyright HTML code?
HTML, like any code, can be copyrighted. You don't copyright individual small pieces, but larger chunks that are unique to what you are trying to do. For instance, I cannot copyright "like any code", but I can copyright this entire paragraph. In fact, the act of writing this causes it to be copyrighted (but not registered).
But you're talking about what's in between the tags right. That I understand. I guess if you consider the entire paragraph "part of the code"... Maybe that's what I'm not understanding. Just seems to be an awfully big net they're casting.

Jason Levine
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Re: View Source Infringes Copyright

I can see how some code can be copyrighted. For example, if I code a "Levine Javascript Library", then it would be copyrighted by me. I could request that anyone who used it retain a copyright notice notifying people that I made it. I might be able to go after someone who took it and tried to pass it off as their own work. However, I couldn't be able to claim that you couldn't view the source code without my permission. Especially not when the code gets loaded into the browser is such a readable form.

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I think the worse part is that they must actually get clients.

Its sad when companies don't know what they are getting themselves into. I saw a designers portfolio today that landed a really nice job. I got the address from the card and the site and portfolio sites really look like a preschooler did them. Worse then some of the worse Ive seen. And these are major corporations...

I amazed people would hire these people based on statements like that. I doubt if they got al gore "the creator of the internet" or whatever any of that bs would hold up in court. Id like to take their html and style it differently with css just to tempt them
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So, who wants to use their Legal Matter Submission page to send them their own source code? »www.cybertriallawyer.com/legal-matter (whoops, I guess I shouldn't have linked them )
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said by Gwellin See Profile :

So, who wants to use their Legal Matter Submission page to send them their own source code? »www.cybertriallawyer.com/legal-matter (whoops, I guess I shouldn't have linked them )
Beat you to it.

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Re: View Source Infringes Copyright

I used their form to "submit" a claim against them. Used all bogus information about myself, of course. At least it takes someone to look at it and hit "delete". If they get enough, maybe they'll think again about their stupid TOS.

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These guys need to be locked up in a rubber room to protect them from themselves.
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Thank you for the link to this site. I'll keep the link to it as vivid example of stupidity of Internet law firm.
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This is the same law firm that tried to copyright their
own Cease & Desist notice, which Public Citizen then
called them out about it and posted it and a scathing
reply (also sent to them). This was concerning such a
notice sent to a website called infomercialscams.com and
some related sites over calling Directbuy a scam (which
it is.) They did this in order to try and avoid the
Streisand Effect, but really all they did was draw more
unwanted attention to themselves, daring people to flout
their so-called "copyright".

Let's see. Spammers as clients. These guys are definitely
cart00neys.
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That sucks.
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said by Jason Levine See Profile :

This is too hilarious (yet at the same time, very sad). Apparently, Dozier Internet Law believes that the copyright on their website allows them to forbid anyone from viewing the HTML code on their website. They also forbid linking to their site without permission.

So, according to them, I'm breaking the law if I say that I went to »www.cybertriallawyer.com/ and clicked View->Page Source.

How stupid can you get?

(Credit where credit is due: I read this on »pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2007/···gre.html )
sucks for people using Links browser »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_%28w···owser%29 and are viewing in HTML mode or those using FireFox with split screen (view/code)
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lmfao at the site..... stupid

PolarBear
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You mean I can't look at this:


Bummer. I guess I'll have to remove my retinas and undergo shock therapy to forget what I've seen.

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Re: View Source Infringes Copyright

crap, I viewed the source...I think I hear sirens coming...

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After looking at the page source, I can't help but wonder if they're paying the licensing fee to use hyperlinks in their code..

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Best thing to happen to their site would be for it to get
Slashdotted.

Now I'm not necessarily advocating DDoS here, even though
if that were to happen, there's a good bet their servers
would get flooded with traffic from curious visitors.

I'd also Digg this one as well.

Edit: looks like someone has posted it there as well (linked
to Techdirt): »yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=···/2123233
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Re: View Source Infringes Copyright

»www.cybertriallawyer.com/Example···ry/Files

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Re: View Source Infringes Copyright

... So they're hosting copyrighted files? They must empty it automatically every day to avoid being sued themselves. Regardless someone could upload a file and send the link to others who would have a day to download it; I think the RIAA could make a case.
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said by Gwellin See Profile :

... So they're hosting copyrighted files? They must empty it automatically every day to avoid being sued themselves. Regardless someone could upload a file and send the link to others who would have a day to download it; I think the RIAA could make a case.
I see now that this "Example Zope Program" was only discovered today, and they have no idea, at the moment, how much of a hole they have in their own system. People are posting several types of illegal materials on their site, and they deserve it.
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Re: View Source Infringes Copyright

Well they're quick. They've already blocked access to that file uploader.
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Haha... the DMCA Takedown JPG's are actually dirty pictures. People amuse me.

Edit: I strongly recommend you don't look through those files, specifically the JPG's. They don't look to be of age.

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Isnt zope open source? That would really suck if they where dicks like these guys.
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