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Thanks for pointing this out, but IANAL; could you briefly explain what this is about in the context of Scholar Ninja?

• gioele 12y ago
  The problem is that the phrase "This is not crawling, only scraping" is to be taken with a grain of salt. If you find a page with a lot of information and you "just scrape it", you may still be subject to "sui generis" database rights, i.e. you are probably not allowed to reuse the data you just got. You can say "it is only an alphabetical list of names and titles", but you have to remember that the "sui generis" DB rights have been created to protect phone books, and almost every compilation of data is more complex than a phone book.
  • juretriglav 12y ago
    Thanks for that explanation, makes sense now. I really don't want to upset anyone and would like Scholar Ninja to be perceived as an additional value to all involved parties. For publishers specifically, it surely must be in their interest that people are able to find their papers. I'm hoping that because Scholar Ninja is also framed as an open-source, non-profit initiative, I'll upset people even less. Fingers crossed.