Timeline for Can I legally scrape data from a website for use in my app?
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| Jun 24, 2017 at 15:56 | comment | added | LjL | Copyright also generally does not apply to databases, so it's bold and likely incorrect to talk about "legalizing theft", although various jurisdictions do have separate database rights (which, in turn, further underscores how copyright itself does not apply). The problem with data scraping is generally not copyright at all, but, if anything, violating the ToS, which is binding in some jurisdictions, and mostly untested in others, although if it's not prominent and hard to find, courts in the US, at least, have definitely ruled that it isn't necessarily binding. | |
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| Dec 1, 2016 at 3:53 | comment | added | BlueDogRanch | The link to my.pinkfroot.com is at the bottom of shipfinder.co. The Pinkfoot site states "Home of Plane Finder, Ship Finder and more..." That's where the TOS is. And, just because there is "data that someone leaves carelessly exposed" doesn't negate copyright or legalize theft. Copyright begins when the data/work is created. | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 3:32 | comment | added | jqning | @BlueDogRanch I'm not confident those TOS apply to shipfinder. Can you connect those dots a little better? I mean, I see the connection and can imagine a party arguing that they apply, but it's tangential at best and I don't think reasonable to expect a user to know that those TOS govern use of data that someone leaves carelessly exposed. | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 20:58 | comment | added | BlueDogRanch | Well, the TOS was not easy to find; they need to make it more apparent on the shipfinder.co site. | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 20:57 | history | edited | BlueDogRanch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 30, 2016 at 20:20 | comment | added | Servuc | The next time, I should try to find something more time :p Thank you too ;) | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 20:19 | vote | accept | Servuc | ||
| Nov 30, 2016 at 15:22 | history | answered | BlueDogRanch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |