Re: Toronto Real Estate Board shuts down local man's data visualization project

Posted by Glen Newton on Sep 15, 2017; 5:00pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Toronto-Real-Estate-Board-shuts-down-local-man-s-data-visualization-project-tp7708p7711.html

Correction:
> If this were true, we wouldn't need Open Data licenses...
This might be true (I am not a lawyer), but if you need a court to decide it,  it doesn't really matter to ordinary folk. You can be silenced by the deep legal costs of going to court (or avoiding that).

Glen

On 15 September 2017 at 12:57, Glen Newton <[hidden email]> wrote:

The devil is in the details of this sentence:
"Using information released by TREB in early July, he published a visualization of trends in Toronto's housing market."

Did he:

1 - Scrape pages from TREB all which indicated copyright

or

2 - TREB published a dataset with an Open Data license and he used this for his web site.

If #1, then he should not be surprised by this outcome.

Yes, I read what Teresa Scassa said. If this were true, we wouldn't need Open Data licenses...

Glen

On 15 September 2017 at 12:39, Herb Lainchbury <[hidden email]> wrote:

Interesting article.

Thanks for posting this David.

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 3:51 AM, David Murdoch <[hidden email]> wrote:

ICYMI 'I felt like I was being bullied': Toronto Real Estate Board shuts down local man's data visualization project http://ow.ly/LS3730f8M5W 

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