On 01/12/2008 16:13, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
> Brian Quinion wrote:
>> Probably it would be possible to filter it so not too many requests
>> went to any one site, but that still leaves the possibility that they
>> used royal mails postcode finder (or similar) to find their original
>> data.  Across a large number of sites you could end up doing a
>> database extraction from royal mail regardless.

So are those (also) infringing by making the PAF available in bulk online?

>> Address books and company mailing lists seemed like a preferable
>> source and as long as individuals names are not included privacy
>> shouldn't be an issue.
>>
> I'd noted that too. Business directory listings (Yell, Thomson etc) or house
> price finders which are using copyright Land Registry data in the
> background.

Is Google infringing by sucking all this data into their database?

David


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