Tom Chance wrote: > So I suspect it's potentially breaching copyright, and a matter of > judgement as to whether it's worth the risk. For example, if you > were copying in data from a commercial web site whose business > model was based around that data (like a listing of pubs) you > might get yourself and OSM into some trouble. On the other > hand, copying in some basic contact details for a local church > or restaurant off their own web site is unlikely to cause any > trouble!
Exactly that. If you want a very very broad rule of thumb, you could ask "am I checking these contact details against a database of contact details?". If so (e.g. tesco.com list of their stores, beerintheevening.com list of pubs, etc.), then don't do it. If not (e.g. an individual 'contact us' page on a one-off shop), you'll be fine. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Copyright-issues-of-checking-details-on-other-websites-tp6545632p6549071.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb