One aspect you should check. Do some research and find out if "they" are actually the owners of the original content. Here's a story of a firm that processes content of a transit agency (Muni, San Francisco), that tried to bully/charge a mobile developer into a subscription. http://sfappeal.com/news/2009/06/who-owns-sfmta-arrival-data.php
On Jan 11, 2:30 am, PeeDee <[email protected]> wrote: > "If your idea is a good one why not contact the site owner and offer > them a share of sales" > > At the moment they are asking 27,000 ( $43,598.36 ) per annum for a > snapshot of the data and more for monthly updates. For some reason > I was thinking, on the whole, android apps were lucky to make 1000+. > > Not sure it would be worth it to them but I could be wrong. > > Pd. > > On 11/01/10 08:09, Al Sutton wrote: > > > Screen scraping without the site owners permission is pretty much > > universally disliked. Whilst you may find you can justify it legally > > by using the app to download and parse the data (as opposed to using a > > server to redistribute the information), you may find that the site > > owner will occasionally tweak the site just to break your parser. > > > If your idea is a good one why not contact the site owner and offer > > them a share of sales in return for legitimate use of the data. You > > may find they're interested in having an Android app but just don't > > have the resources available to make one available. > > > Al. > > > On 11 Jan, 00:14, PeeDee<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Could do with opinions on this. I've done quite a bit of research on > >> the legalities to use web site data via a screen scrape. To my mind I > >> can do this as long as I don't sell the information scraped. So, if I > >> was to sell an app that scraped data based on a users request, would > >> this be seen as "normal use". Basically, all I believe I am doing is > >> providing a different interface. Am I right in thinking its the end > >> users responsibility to request formal written permission if they are > >> going to use the information for things other than stated as "Permitted > >> Use"? > > >> One copyright statement reads. > > >> Permitted Use. Viewers of this Information are granted permission to > >> access this [NAME REMOVED] copyright material and to download the [NAME > >> REMOVED] copyright material onto electronic, magnetic, optical or > >> similar storage media provided that such activities are for private > >> research, study or in-house use only. Any other use of the material > >> requires the formal written permission of [NAME REMOVED]. > > >> Anyone else using this type of method in their apps? > > >> Would like your opinions :-)
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