Posted by Kenneth Downs on 12/17/06 11:53

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

>
> Additionally, do you have permission from EBay to use their information
> in this way? All of it is copyrighted, and using it without their
> permission can get you and the developer in a lot of trouble. Of
> course, if this is for valid research, I would think they would be quite
> willing to grant that permission. And any responsible developer would
> want to ensure this is in place before starting.
>


Hmmm, I would wonder about the distinction between their HTML pages and the
data points.

Copying an entire page and displaying it as part of your business would
definitely be a violation. Oh, except for google does that, um, they do it
actually with the entire internet. There have been a few high-profile
cases of people objecting, but by-and-large it seems to go forward.

Ras is talking about gathering data points that they have made public. I
would bet (of course IANAL) that he is ok until he starts thinking about
going public. Then he will have to acknowledge the source of the data and
obtain some kind of understanding.


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Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth@(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)

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