On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:13:37PM +0100, Stuart Morgan wrote: > On Fri 8 July 2005 21:56, Nick wrote: > > IANAL - I don't think that scraping would be covered under that ruling > > due to the definition of a 'collection of facts'. I agree that if a > > site states that certain uses of its data are forbidden then it should > > be respected, especially as the data concerned is the property of the > > site. It is however quite hard to regulate access to a busy site if > > data is coming from a 'normal' request and being used > > non-commercially. This seems to be a situation similar to the > > gathering of TV listings e.g Tribune, and whereby a pay service would > > allow the content to be licensed for a particular use. > > It comes down to a moral, if not legal issue. You can look for and probably > find loopholes in their request, but it goes against the spirit if not the > letter of the terms to do so.
Of course, given the hijacking of publically contributed information that lead to that database existing in the first place... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
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