On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Nic Roets <[email protected]> wrote: >> A little bit of care will be needed to suppress databases that may be >> legally protected. But I can't see any problem if you extract 1 >> address per website. > > I can see a problem with that idea. > > "I only infringed a little bit" is still infringing.
My understanding is that extracting a single fact from a single source is always legal (in the US, in the UK, everywhere). Journalists extracts small amounts of facts from many individual sources all day long and rarely get into trouble. If we extract only 1 address per website, the vast majority of those pages will be home pages and business websites. People who would approve of what we are doing if it is brought to their attention. So it's a symbiotic relationship. Google's idea of "a little bit of care" is simply to honor robots.txt, spider with an obvious user agent and adherence to a few web standards. And there is a word for people with disapprove of this practice: Copyright Troll. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
