Not sure if you've seen any of the Hargreaves report, but there are some bits about text mining exceptions to copyright:
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview-finalreport.pdf (page 48) http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview-doc-t.pdf The Land Registry, Companies House and Judicial outcome datasets could be specifically added to these proposals with a bit of lobbying :) Cheers, Donny. On 24 October 2011 11:54, Francis Davey <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/10/24 Paul Waring <[email protected]>: >> >> Level Business have bought some form of subscription service - or at least I >> presume this is the case since you can view annual accounts on their site >> within 24 hours of them being accepted by Companies House. I imagine for >> quoted companies in the UK you could probably just scrape the accounts from >> their websites, although that would not catch all their subsidiaries. >> > > Although, sadly, that would then infringe copyright of those accounts. > > -- > Francis Davey > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/donovanhide%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
