[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Jun 20 16:09:35 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:43:46AM -0600, Craig Partin wrote:
> If they are shutting off the service that they started to prevent
> scraping; does that mean that they have a way to prevent scraping via
> some other means?

Of course it doesn't mean that.  If you post it, *someone* can scrape
it, if they're motivated enough.  Raw factual directory data (which
this is) isn't copyrightable anyway; Feist v Rural makes that pretty
clear.  If there's *creative* writing in the episode descriptions, then
maybe, but IANAL.

Cheers,
-- jra
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