[mythtv-users] Mooting architecture for a DataDirect replacement

Dan Ritter dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu
Tue Jun 26 09:07:59 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:03:30PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> There are two separate issues of legality involved here:
> 
> a) does the station own a copyright in the bare scheduling data (almost
> certainly no: Feist v Rural, but I don't know if there's any caselaw on
> this topic; anyone got a Versuslaw subscription?)

Not me, but several people on Groklaw do.

> b) can the station legally restrict you from crawling their site in
> that fashion, to acquire the data.  Courts are, IME, all over the map
> on whether web site operators are legally *permitted* to restrict how
> people can access non-technically-restricted pages in light of the fact
> that technical restrictions are 1) possible, 2) easy and 3) free.  My
> moral opinion is if you want it restricted, restrict it.

If you were damaging them through deliberate DOS, perhaps.
Otherwise... they make the information freely available.

-dsr-

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