The stockgrabber tag seems to be illegal if used on your site to display
stock quote information. I am not a lawyer either but I contacted yahoo
about syndicating their data to our intranet. I did this with no mention of
how they would syndicate the data to us. Their response was not at all
favorable.
They basically told me that there should be no redistribution of data in any
form. All legal uses of their site are listed at the following url.
http://biz.yahoo.com/f/q.html#links
I contacted the author of this tag and he said the tag was made for CFHTTP
demostration.
The strange thing is, if you open the url that gets called from
cf_stockgrabber, they give back a comma delimited file which opens within MS
Excel inside IE. So, if Yahoo does not want to redistribute the data then
why do they have this unprotected url in the first place.
-Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Reich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 2:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Stock ticker
Yes, but in the case of Stock Quotes, they are not Yahoo's content. Yahoo is
syndicating this information from the stock market. I understand the line of
thinking here, but I just want to play devil's advocate for a minute. Who
owns the rights to stock market quotes? In the end, all sights are
syndicating the data. If I pulled Yahoo's financial forecast for the future
of a particular stock, I could see how that might be an infringement, but
just the latest stock prices? I'd be interested in the legal argument
here...
-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond K. Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 4:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Stock ticker
I would assume that any tag that takes content and repurposes for another
web site w/o permission of the original web site would be illegal. Of
course, this reminds of the conversation about discovering someone stealing
your graphics by using <IMG SRC="http://www.yourserver.com" and replacing
the graphic with something a bit embarassing. You could do the same thing
here if you find that someone is syndicating your content w/o your approval.
<CF_Disclaimer>
Of course, I'm not a lawyer.
</CF_Disclaimer>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Reich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 4:13 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Stock ticker
>
>
> >Also illegal if it grabs from yahoo or something.
>
> Why is this illegal? I didn't write the tag, but I just wondered. Are all
> tags that syndicate content via CFHTTP illegal (ie. accuweather, Dilbert,
> etc...)??
>
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