Are you claiming that your site is merely a search engine that indexes adultwork profiles? And then allows people to search them in a way that's far more limited than if they just went adultwork?

Not only AW - several others too . . .

Oh come one girls stop messing with this joker and send Go daddy a cease and desist notce re copyright infringement

Oh come one girls stop messing with this joker and send Go daddy a cease and desist notce re copyright infringement

Isn't it easier to run away than admit that in fact you're wrong?

Not sure what GoDaddy have to do with it ??

That you create a search engine does not mean that you can copy&paste profiles from other website! Come on, how simpler can it be to understand? The profile is "a property" of aw only. Indexing means LINKING not copy and paste and pretending that was made on your site.

I think the point you are missing is that photos are copyright protected which means they cannot be used by anyone else without prior permission.
If your legal team are telling you different I would personally sack them and find someone who actually knows what they are talking about.
Yes the photos are searchable BUT they are not public domain.

Look here:

Images, most from AW - indexed into Google!!

http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&biw=1680&bih=868&tbs=isch:1&q=adultwork&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&gs_rfai=&uss=1

If you check, you'll see that those images aren't stored on google's servers, they're hotlinked directly from the sites they appear on, and clicking on them takes you to the relevant pages. Google used to store much smaller thumbnails for its image search but that seems to have gone out with the new site design. Search engines index data so that they can match it to search terms, and show enough in the results for you to decide if it's worth going to the site yourself. If you're merely acting as a search engine in the hopes of driving people to relevant pages, why do you need to include a phone number for every one of your results?

Your site does not act as a search engine. You seem to be implying (though not saying) that you're using google's index to provide information. This isn't the case, and google hasn't indexed any phone numbers from adultwork and certainly doesn't show you a list of them if you search for "escort" or something.

Also, this is not a sentence. I'm not just being picky here, obviously I get the gist (you're right, we're wrong), but I don't actually know what you're trying to say.

Indexing it NOT copyright!

This site provides a simple yet thorough explanation of UK copyright law, which you and anyone who's curious may find useful: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/copy.htm

(Correction: it seems you did actually tell Amy by email, "the result where you appear here is indexed from Google ? and not taken from AW or anywhere else". This is not true. As she's demonstrated, the picture you've taken isn't available in google results. Neither is the phone number she uses on adultwork.)

Quote from: Bestcorts on 30 July 2010, 12:08:13 am

Quote from: Slick on 30 July 2010, 12:05:42 am

Oh come one girls stop messing with this joker and send Go daddy a cease and desist notce re copyright infringement

Isn't it easier to run away than admit that in fact you're wrong?

Not sure what GoDaddy have to do with it ??

So what your saying your server is not on a go daddy owned server i.e NS15.DOMAINCONTROL.COM & NS16.DOMAINCONTROL.COM?

Because tell me if im wrong, Godaddy does infact own domaincontrol.com

Yes, I am saying that our server cluster is NOT GoDaddy owned.  The beautiful thing about domain control is that A records and CNAMES can be set simply to point to your servers. Whilst some people choose to set their own Name Servers (NS15 above) - we simply redirect.  This allows for load balancing across different servers and allows us to switch to backup systems by a simply change of IP in the A Record.  It improves efficiency if you intend to use more than one server (called round robin DNS).
You see, we do this professionally, full time - not in some small bedroom with curtains closed.