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Originally Posted by phormwatch
What's Emma's email address? I will ask her if she thinks it would be OK if people commercially exploit BTs websites for the same reasons.
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BT websites are copyrighted.
Strange then that they insist that all other websites are freely available for copying.
I do not believe that BT obtained any legal advice pertaining to this issue as any lawyer would have been able to tell them that you only have a Limited Lecence when you are sent a webpage - that's right; it is sent to you contrary to the popular concpet of being visited.
This is exactly the same arrangement that exists when you purchase a CD. The disk is your property bu the content is alaway and only the property of the copyright holder. You have a Limited Licence which allows you to play the disk and listen to the content but there are restrictions including not being allowed to "broadcast" i.e allow other people to listen to it in a shop or pub as well as transmitting it through any media and you absolutely can not make copies.
It is especially interesting that Emma S refers specifically to "copies" in her reply to Robert as this indicates to me that she is not quoting from or has not understood any legal advice regarding the ownership and licensing of any form of content on any media.
We need BT to qualify their claims that they sought legal advice especially with regards to the areas of the system that such advice covered. I suspect that the only advice that they sought was to see if they could use the word "Webwise".