On 7/8/05, Mark Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <SNIP> > > explicitly forbidden. Only small subsets of filmographies are allowed to be > > quoted, and only on non-commercial websites. The latter restrictions on the > > use of data may be unenforceable, as the U.S. Supreme Court in Feist v. > > Rural ruled that collections of facts are not protected by copyright." > > > > With that being said... i can say anything to scare you but that doesn't > > mean i can take it to court and win. > > Ok great.... there is a possible legal loophole that Myth would fit > into. But as a community project i feel we have a greater > responsibility. If a site askes not to be screen scraped, whe should > comply with their wishes. Especialy when there is another alternative > that is free, and completely legal.
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. There is however the possibility to have the imdb data local (ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/movies/database/tools/movie-database-faq) which _may_ offer a compromise (no scraping, but additional overhead). Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
