"All volunteers who contribute content to the database retain copyright to their contributions but grant full rights to copy, modify, and sublicense the content to IMDb. IMDb in turn does not allow others to use movie summaries or actor biographies without written permission. Using filtering software to avoid the display of advertisements from the site is also explicitly forbidden. Only small subsets of filmographies are allowed to be quoted, and only on non-commercial websites. The latter restrictions on the use of data may be unenforceable, as the U.S. Supreme Court in Feist v. Rural ruled that collections of facts are not protected by copyright."
With that being said... i can say anything to scare you but that doesn't mean i can take it to court and win.
On 7/8/05, Aaron Stewart <
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I'd imagine that no, it's not a good thing.
That being said, I think IMDB might offer a web services REST/SOAP api
through Amazon; barring that, a lot of IMDB's data is exposed through
amazon's webservices (ECS 4.0) interface..
http://webservices.amazon.com
Cheers,
-=Aaron
Mark Gardner wrote:
> I don't think that the IMDB screen scraping that mythVideo is using is
> legal under the rules and conditions with IMDB.
> http://www.imdb.com/conditions
> Does myth tv have written consent to use the information?
>
> The Reason I Ask is that I"m writing my own program and running into
> legal problems, and remember that Myth does the same thing.
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