> From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 September 2006 12:02 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: NFL Player Stats Service > > It's on their web site, freely accessable, no ? > Tough - you are free to do what you want with it.
You'd have a hard job proving that one in court, I suspect. Some data is so obviously 'open source' that you could scrape it with no problem. I was once asked for nearly £20k to have football league tables supplied, via SQL Server, from the Press Association. However since these are calculated based on freely-available results, there's very little stopping you from scraping them and saying you did the calculations yourself. However there aren't many places that can tell you the colour of shirt for every team that kicked the ball last in every football game in the UK each week (as the Press Association provides to bookmakers) so if you nicked something like that from a site, they'd know fine if you had a license to use it or not. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253820 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
