| Re: First Ebay, Trademes next?
WOW, is all I can immediately say. However, when thinking about a web development contract - the content of a site remains the intellectual property of the client, the page itself belongs to the developer. Any legal issues regarding the content are taken up with the client. In Ebay's case, the content is technically the sellers then? It is an interesting situation. Like, say a person sells a fake Bride seat on Trademe, would you prosecute Trademe? No. Then again, if you take the definition of "harbouring stolen goods" in great flexibility, you could possibly consider Trademe or any online auction site to be at wrong... but it doesn't seem that is the case.
For the credability of their site however, they could at least take some effort towards reducing the sale of pirated goods... |