hello all i've written a desktop movie database app that uses IMDbPY to fetch movie information (http://www.corecode.at/moviedb/index.html).
but now that the project approaches readiness for public consumption i have some doubts if the "IMDB conditions of use" allow me to distribute such an app: http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?usedatasoftware reads: "You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping, or similar online data gathering and extraction tools on our website. " does this mean using IMDbPY with the http access module is illegal? or can i just ignore the problem since i'm just distributing a program that allows for doing this and defer the problem to my users? would requiring the users to accept the "IMDb Copyright and Conditions of Use" and having a disclaimer be enough? really it seems like using the plain text data files they are distributing is the only legal way? but i certainly can't distribute 700MB of data with my app. also AFAIK the local access module was removed from IMDbPY and i have the impression using the SQL module is difficult in my case - since it is a self contained desktop app. what is with the programs listed on the IMDbPY Programs site? are they ignoring the issue? do any of them use the http access module? thanks, julian p.s. of course i had also a short look into the issue before i really got into writing this app, i seem to remember the usage terms were not so strict at that time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Imdbpy-help mailing list Imdbpy-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/imdbpy-help
