[mythtv-users] IMDB Screen Scrap... legal?

[andrew matthews]

Quote from 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database#Copyright_issues

"All volunteers who contribute content to the database retain
copyright<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States>in
*Feist v. Rural <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 <acs at hourglassone.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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