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23rd October 2008 - Link Blog

Learning to Fear the Semantic Web. Paul Ford raises the liability issue with regards to building sites around other people’s metadata, pointing out that OpenCalais is owned by Thomson Reuters who have a bad track record with regards to intellectual property lawsuits elsewhere in the organisation.

Posted 23rd October 2008 at 4:14 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 23rd October 2008.

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