andywar

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by andywar 17y ago
May not be illegal, but is against the T&Cs of the site, so could be a civil matter if the original site decided to argue it in court…
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by andywar 17y ago
No, but it’s my understanding that you can copyright a collection of them if the act of doing so involved considerable work, as pointed out by warp and myself multiple times. So the original website that was scraped holds such a copyright.
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by andywar 17y ago
Similar or not, a lot of very highly-paid lawyers would love to argue over this for weeks. My general argument is this whole situation is not as clear-cut and black-and-white as the developer in question asserts, however ‘moral’ or justifie
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by andywar 17y ago
And without those IP permissions in place, in the form of written approval by the bus company to use their data, he risks opening one almighty can of worms…
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by andywar 17y ago
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but I agree you have done work that should be protectable. I commend you for approaching them, but you shouldn’t have given up. Without written agreement from bus company that you have permission it’s going to
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by andywar 17y ago
Except his own act of compiling is by ‘scraping’ the original source, against their own copyrights and T&Cs. In the case of a bus company’s timetable their own data—the times they run to, routes, etc.—is not public domain unless they
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by andywar 17y ago
I guess one obvious question is do you have permission from the Dublin Bus company to use their data yourself? From their T&Cs ( http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/Legal/ ) ‘No part of this website may be copied, performed in public, broadcast