[Gllug] extracting data from specific sites

[John G Walker]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:41:28 +0000 "- Tethys" <tethys at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 17, 2007 12:37 PM, John G Walker
> <johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > IANAL also, but the difference would seem to me to be that the
> > output from a screen scraper is used to re-publish the data on a
> > web page.  
> 
> Screen scraping != republishing. If that's the reason you're scraping
> the site, then yes, it's probably illegal. But even so, it's the act
> of republishing the data that will get you into trouble, not the
> scraping of the data in the first place.

But the question here is scraping in order to republish. Which is not
illegal, but lays you open to civil action. IANAL, but I'm sure that's
the case.

I stand by my advice,

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 All the best,
 John
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