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A lot less than I expected, but then most of the questions seem to be about ‘more modern’ things.

40% Geek

from this week’s chart - week ending 27/10/2007

#1 - About You Now - Sugababes
#4 - Goodbye Mr A - The Hoosiers
#7 - Happy Ending - Mika
#11 - Hey There Delilah - Plain White T’s
#12 - She’s So Lovely - Scouting For Girls
#23 - Big Girls Don’t Cry - Fergie
#26 - Kanye West - Stronger
#30 - Young Folks - Peter Bjorn & John feat Victoria Bergsman
#31 - It Means Nothing - Stereophonics
#40 - Foundations - Kate Nash

I might do this each week - as a sort of ‘personal chart’

As a sort of follow-on from the previous chart run post, I put this together before that post.  It doesn’t provide a definitive answer to the whole copyright aspect of charts on websites, but explains my reasoning for re-instating the search in a round-about way…

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Some of you may have noticed that the chart run search is back.  Below are some of the reasons for this:

– As far as I know emails from the Official Charts Company (OCC) were sent to only two sites.  These sites have so far complied with the request.  However, they have asked the OCC questions, to which they have received no reply, now over a month later.  (I did not receive such an email myself.)  These emails were mainly concerned about the copyright on the data being infringed, and the being used without a licence - no details of which were included in the email, and something which the OCC seems to be a bit hazy about.

– As far as I can see from my basic reading of copyright, what I am doing by presenting the charts runs via a search engine, does not breach the copyright. As the sites that received the emails were publishing the charts in the same format the OCC publishes them (i.e. position, lw, title, artist) the OCC may be correct in applying copyright to the format of the data.  I have taken the data (which I can keep in a database for personal use, according to copyright law) and presented this in a way which does not resemble the format the OCC use - chart runs.  Sure, the title and the artist are the same, but obviously these names do not belong to the OCC.

Therefore the chart run searches will be back for now, and will continue until I hear otherwise from the OCC.