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Originally Posted by rryles
Section 28A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 was added in 2003 by Statutory Instrument 2498 as follows:
From here: http://tinyurl.com/58cwyw
I leave the interpretation to the reader  |
Interesting that a "computer program" is treated differently. You may need to establish what that two word phrase actually covers as it's arguable that HTML is a high-level computer language and therefore any webpage is a computer program.
On that basis, Phorm's arguments about textual content being freely available are meaningless as the source-code has to be disassembled in order to access the text. I believe that this is illegal without resorting to copyright law and civil courts.
How does the law differ if that is the case and should you be looking at the problem from a different angle - e.g. program hacking rather than a copyright breach based purely on the textual content of the webpage?