Scraping, data mining and data harvesting
Submitted by Alasdair Taylor on Sat, 23/02/2008 - 03:31Many websites incorporate data obtained from other websites. It is sometimes thought that, where the data obtained is not protected by copyright (e.g. data consisting of postal addresses arranged alphabetically) there are no legal problems. This is however a mistake: the collection and re-use of such data can present significant legal risks.
Legal area:
internet law
intellectual property law
information technology law