Re: MPs by postal code

Posted by Robin Millette on Mar 27, 2007; 4:16pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/MPs-by-postal-code-tp959p984.html

On 3/26/07, Russell McOrmond <[hidden email]> wrote:

>    The lines aren't always black-and-white, although I think in this case
> if there was a court case that we would easily loose as the cache and
> the use of the screen scraping isn't even a remixing but a simple use of
> the Crown Copyright database of postal-code to MPs.  IANAL, TINLA, but I
> want people to be very careful and not blindly believe that screen
> scraping and remixing avoids any copyright questions.

Oh, I support 100% the notion that laws should be changed, etc.
Scraping is just a stopgap measure. I really think we need to do both,
that is, to get the word out why it's important we have legitimate
access to this data. That's the main mission of COACID, no?

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