[Gllug] extracting data from specific sites

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 11:33 +0000, Progga wrote:
> This book dedicates a whole chapter on legal issues and here are the things
> he advises:
> 
> 0. Read the terms & conditions of the website.  If it prohibits screen scraping,
> you are out of luck.
> 
> 1. Respect the robots.txt file of the website.  If this file is absent and
> there's no terms & conditions, you are free to scrap anything.

Absolutely wrong.

The law states that you have no right to copy someone else's copyright
protected materials without explicit permission unless you have a
defence of fair dealing.

Jason

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