[Gllug] extracting data from specific sites

[Savvas, Panayotis]

>I'm doubtful about the legality of that. If they're placing the
>information in a place that's accessible to the public, for the
>express purpose of give access to that information, then I would have
>thought that they don't really have grounds to complain when people
>access that information, regardless of the method they use to do so.
Well in the same way that you cannot copy content from any other
publicly accessible publication and sell/publish as your own without
permission.
There is an issue of attribution at the very least.

>What's the difference between a screen scraper and a web browser?
Removing the publishers name/branding/advertising/revenue stream.
Arguably this is infringement.


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