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
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