That's also ironic given that eBay fought a suit to keep Bidder's Edge from carrying its listings back in 2000, helping cause Bidder's Edge closure the next year. Craigslist targets Oodle for 'scraping' its listings at the San Jose Mercury
The Bidder's Edge case didn't really answer it. Gary blogged earlier about the Association of American University Presses having concerns that Google Print's digital library program may be equal to widescale copyright infringement.
The issue over the legality of meta search isn't new.eBay succeeded in a "trespass case" against Bidder's Edge. Feedster's Scott Rafer isn't happy that the new Clusty search engine is hitting his site without a licensing agreement, in comments he's...
Bidder's Edge tried a similar argument when it was in a suit lost against eBay -- but there, trespass rather than copyright proved to be the winning issues. The Search Scrum graphic is terrible in giving Google the "edge" when it comes to...
Bidder's Edge plans to appeal the decision. Bidder's Edge Walks Legal Line boston.internet.com, June 9, 2000 http://boston.internet.com/news/article/0,1928,2001_391831,00.html Explains how Bidder's Edge is getting around the ban on spidering eBay.
Ultimately, it will be a court that will decide if they are doing something wrong.eBay did win a "trespassing" case against Bidder's Edge, which spidered the eBay site for listings (see my Search Engines & Legal Issues: Crawling & Linking page for...
Ultimately, it will be a court that will decide if they are doing something wrong.eBay did win a "trespassing" case against Bidder's Edge, which spidered the eBay site for listings (see my Search Engines & Legal Issues: Crawling & Linking page for...
The closest comparison would be with the eBay-Bidder's Edge suit. In that, Bidder's Edge gathered eBay listings as part of its auction-comparison service.eBay successfully argued that Bidder's Edge was trespassing on its site, costing it server...
In particular, since the ruling in Kelly's case, other courts have found that eBay was trespassed by the crawler from Bidder's Edge and that Napster was infringing on music copyright by linking to unauthorized versions of songs.
In particular, since the ruling in Kelly's case, other courts have found that eBay was trespassed by the crawler from Bidder's Edge and that Napster was infringing on music copyright by linking to unauthorized versions of songs.
Bidder's Edge hurts Net, group says Bloomberg, July 18, 2000 http://www.digitalmass.com/news/daily/07/18/bidders_edge.html Auction meta search site Bidder's Edge gets 28 law professors to file a friend-of-the-court brief on its behalf, saying that...
Given eBay's recent action against auction search site Bidder's Edge, that can't be taken for granted. From The Search Engine Report June 2, 2000 Until now, the MP3 revolution had pretty much passed me by.
Given eBay's recent action against auction search site Bidder's Edge, that can't be taken for granted. A judge has decided that spidering of eBay by Bidder's Edge constitutes trespassing. Bidder's Edge plans to appeal the decision.
Should he do so, it would be a blow for Bidder's Edge but by no means an end to the issue. However, Bidder's Edge does argue that it would ignore such a file at eBay because the Bidder's Edge feels the content belongs to those placing the auctions...
Given eBay's recent action against auction search site Bidder's Edge, that can't be taken for granted. A judge has decided that spidering of eBay by Bidder's Edge constitutes trespassing. Bidder's Edge plans to appeal the decision.
