Timeline for Is it legal to use google translate output in my own app?
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| Aug 31, 2018 at 16:12 | vote | accept | Ninja | ||
| Aug 30, 2018 at 9:56 | comment | added | Brandin | @Ninja That means that the users of the app will be using your interface, not Google's, to access the Google translation service. Under that interpretation, it is against their terms. It might be OK if all your app does is display the Google translation web page within your app (e.g. an iframe or a browser window), but it does not sound like you are doing that. If you want to provide translation via an API, you should use Google's API or some other alternative one. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 7:09 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 20:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 29, 2018 at 15:26 | comment | added | Ninja | @RonBeyer actually my program retrieving this translation output by loading google.translate page (so user tapped a button to get translation) and program loads its page then through its INTERFACE gets a translation and communicates it to user. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 15:11 | comment | added | Ron Beyer | Are you sure you aren't violating this clause? "Don’t misuse our Services. For example, don’t interfere with our Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface and the instructions that we provide." Yes, it is vague, but that may be on purpose. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 15:09 | comment | added | Ninja | @RonBeyer but it's TOS do not prohibit using scraping | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 14:02 | comment | added | Ron Beyer | Since Google has an API for this scraping the website is almost certainly against its terms of service. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 13:44 | comment | added | Brandin | So your question is about the legality of automatically accessing the Google Translate service? Copyright generally depends on who wrote the original. For example if I wrote a textbook and you translated it using Google Translate, the translation is a derivative work and I still have a copyright on that. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 13:38 | comment | added | Ninja | @Brandin So Is copying translation from their website and using in my app is copyrightable or do i violate some law ? | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 13:37 | comment | added | Ninja | @Brandin no, i know the status of the translation is non copyrightable. I don't need an API key to get translations and i can do it simply by opening site programmatically and parsing information from it. Google won't block me because my app just opens it's site from WebView like every other site, then paste string to filed and pushed translate button, then script reading output and communicate it to my app. It seem i am using google from its interface. Next, they don't have TOS for translate service only for all services generally. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 13:17 | comment | added | Brandin | Do you want to ask about the copyright status of the translation, or the legality of automation of using the Google Translate service (probably you will need an API key for that, and you need to read their terms of service)? | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 12:30 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 29, 2018 at 12:29 | history | asked | Ninja | CC BY-SA 4.0 |