On 25/03/2010 15:41, Francis Davey wrote:
On 25 March 2010 15:19, Leigh Caldwell <[email protected]
<mailto:[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.
Unlikely, I would have thought, since the same data is published
independently by a fairly large number of sources.
Wikipedia might be the best option as Matthew suggests.
Agreed.
Although the information at Wikipedia is almost certainly obtained from
the likes of the BBC and similar sources.
Mark
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