I totally agree with you. Yes there is some national laws which differ but in the end it's open data. Today everything open enough can be considered "free to d

I totally agree with you. Yes there is some national laws which differ but in the end it's open data. Today everything open enough can be considered "free to do whatever people want to do with it". Before doing anything in this world I think you'll have to face this and think about how to deal with it if you have to. OT: I don't think it's great that small competitors have problems because of this but on the other side I'm not one of those people who repeat the idea of "competition as being good for innovation & customers" that we all heard a lot in some economic lectures. I think in an ideal world there'd be no need for more than 1 basic model of smartphone, notebook or car. In this disney world we'd have global efforts to innovate, develop an manufacture what we need and build that stuff in the best possible quality with fairness, modularity and reparability in mind. Yes you'd call this monopolies but in the end the freedom from this endless competition makes another way to work possible. Also innovation doesn't have to come from competition as we've seen from many examples (including what the first intelligent "homo XYZ" invented). Then of course there'd be no need to scrape for battling your competition. We'd have APIs for everything we'd like to know. Wouldn't this be nice?