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I remember reading the terms of use before implementing some ideas I had. I'm no attorney, but it seemed pretty clear that this kind of thing wouldn't fly. 2.
by evlapix 15y ago
I remember reading the terms of use before implementing some ideas I had. I'm no attorney, but it seemed pretty clear that this kind of thing wouldn't fly.
2. ACCESS TO THE SERVICE
craigslist grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access
the Service for your own personal use. This license does not include:
(a) access to the Service by Posting Agents; or (b) any collection,
aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use of the Service
nor any use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and
extraction tools for any purpose unless expressly permitted by craigslist.
A limited exception to (b) is provided to general purpose internet search
engines and non-commercial public archives that use such tools to gather
information for the sole purpose of displaying hyperlinks to the Service,
provided they each do so from a stable IP address or range of IP addresses
using an easily identifiable agent and comply with our robots.txt file.
"General purpose internet search engine" does not include a website or
search engine or other service that specializes in classified listings
or in any subset of classifieds listings such as jobs, housing, for sale,
services, or personals, or which is in the business of providing classified
ad listing services.
- derekdahmer 15y agoCraiggers is powered by the 3taps API that just launched a month ago. They postulate that postings are facts, which are public domain. http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2011/03/06/39377/ADataCommonsintheExchangeSpace.pdf http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2011/03/06/39377/ADataCommonsin... Craigslist posts aren't facts, they are works that the authors grant a copyright to Craiglists for. Even if a craigslist post is a fact, collections of facts like recipe books are copywritable. Not to mention that the way they are harvesting these facts is in violation of the TOS like you pointed out. They'll likely a) get sued and/or b) figure out a licensing deal.
- evlapix 15y agoPhew.. I made the right call then. Thanks!