On 25 March 2010 15:19, Leigh Caldwell <[email protected]> wrote:

> I believe this data is provided to the BBC by Dods under licence, and I
> doubt that their contract will allow it to be passed on for reuse by other
> people (we [Goveval] used to have a similar contract with the BBC and I
> can't imagine that Dods are more generous than us).
>
> You may well decide that this information is in the public domain and that
> you are therefore allowed to scrape it, but I can't comment on that. It's
> unlikely that you will get the BBC to give you it, though.
>

Someone might assert a database right over it though - so to do so is not
risk free.


>
> Wikipedia might be the best option as Matthew suggests.
>
>
Agreed.

-- 
Francis Davey
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