Search engines to be illegal in Canada?

[punky]

http://www.globetechnology.com/servl...ry/Technology/

It mentions Google, but all search engines work on a similar system. All search engines cache meta keywords from a site, and text to improve matching, to also show the search keywords in context, to help the user decide the best hits. They particularly don't like the imaging search of Google/Yahoo.

This would also affect the Wayback machine at www.archive.org as well.

Seems crazy to me... Search engines display copyright material with obvious references to the owner's original material, and it doesn't try and claim ownership. However, you could technically argue that it profits from displaying copyrighted material...

I can't imagine the copyright owners thanking them for this, seeing as they rely on the search engines to bring them traffic

[Jules]

How stupid can you get!

[grandmaster]

Originally Posted by whyme38

How stupid can you get!

Agreed,

This could be a major blow for them.
i wonder who complained about a search engine displaying their material.

Although you can stop a spider from crawling along certain areas of a site with robots.txt albiet i realise that some spiders are set to ignore this file

[Scarlett]

Ah but remember, we are talking about a country that has a tax on blank media that goes into the pockets of the music companies to compensate them for copies of music made on the media...

I like the assumption that if you buying blank media you are going to make copies of music/videos/etc...

Probably a silly loop hole that if they are sensible they will close*

Scarlett.

*unlike our government which passed/is trying to pass the religious hate bill. 'Yes we know that any one can complain based on the fact that they might have been offended if they had actually seen the item/play/speach/etc in question but the Lord chancellor is sensible enough to work out whose taking the proverbial'

[Paul K]

Thanksfully the author of the report points this out

But, cautions Mr. Knopf, Bill C-60 has received first reading only, and that "there"s a lot of time for them to take this out or to fix it."

He warns that "we shouldn't cripple the Googles of the world by imposing copyright chill on the very basis of their architecture. In fact, they perform a very useful service to copyright owners by enabling easy detection of infringement. The owners should go after the actual infringer, rather than effectively shooting the messenger."

If this law is bought in to effect there will be a lot of sites, businesses, educational facilities etc severely impacted. I can only think that someone will object to this legislation in such a way that it is either re-written or scrapped or the impact of it could be global.