Michael Hutchinson wrote:
If you’re serious, perhaps you need to contact a Lawyer. It may cost you money up front to find out what you may already know, but it might save you money in the long run if you run into issues down the track.
Damn skippy, you should.
Skeeve wrote:
For any content that is ‘freely available on the web’ – what is the legality of acquiring this content and delivering it locally?
Define "freely available".
For example.. many TV stations are uploading full episodes onto their websites after the show has aired.
It's still covered by copyright (regardless of what one may think of the rights and wrongs of that). As Michael said, T&C will tell you a lot about what the publisher thinks you can and can't do with their content, and they WILL have contracted lawyers to look at this. Pointing to their content is one thing, Actually reusing it (even if in the same form) is a whole 'nother can'o'worms.
I am only talking about free content – which is not paid for, but freely downloadable from websites.
"Free" as in beer does not mean "free" as in speech ;-)
I guess I am talking about a ‘pre-caching’ kind of situation.
I don't know of any legislation anywhere that has considered "pre-caching". NZ law allows for caching to not be copyright infringement, I don't think Australia does. Regards Mark Harris