By Sara Frances, M.Photog.Cr.
Copy
and remix. No industry is immune. Competing businesses try to improve
on each other's products or duplicate them outright, seeking greater
profit, lower cost basis and market share. Mining the Internet is the
norm; search engines themselves are a form of information scraping. No
one thinks twice about harvesting quotes, music, scientific formulas or
images. I've witnessed advanced degree university classes where
information scraping without regard to copyright is not only tolerated,
but encouraged. Read more at ppmag.com>>




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