[Panel-devel] Comics applet

[Wade Olson]

On Dec 13, 2007 1:52 PM, Chris Howells <chris at chrishowells.co.uk> wrote:
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 December 2007, Level 1 wrote:
> >> Many of these comics providers would probably be sympathetic to us and want
> >> to help us create an access media to their comics (in particular xkcd).  Is
> >
> > great idea. just needs someone to start contacting them. you could be that
> > person, even =)
>
> Actually, as I have pointed out before (but was ignored), UserFriendly
> explicitly prohibit what is going on:
>
> http://www.userfriendly.org/faq/
>
> Q. Is it okay if I 'webscrape' or pull down the comic with a script?
>
> A. Such programs that allow a user to view comics owned by User
> Friendly.Org are unauthorized; and such activities constitute copyright
> infringement, unfair competition and trademark infringement, rendering
> the owner and/or user of such programs liable for damages. In short, no.

Well, the only way to find out is to ask then.  Nonetheless, I suspect
that enough will be happy to merit a unified approach to daily
comics/daily images.

>
> I suspect that several of the other comics are the same.
>
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