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[Apologies for last copy post from me - accidentally hit 'Send' instead of 'Save as a draft']
Mike - if it's for a not-for-profit purpose, have you considered using data made available for culture/history etc hacks + The Commons on Flickr if wanting to use pics with titles?
Janet
Janet E Davis
--- On Mon, 10/10/11, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Screen-scraping
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, 10 October, 2011, 16:24
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> Hi all
>
> A question for you.
>
> If a...friend of mine.. did some screen-scraping of your
> collections sites,
> would you / your organisations:
>
> 1) care
> 2) be able to do anything about it even if you did
>
> Or would it be a case of
>
> 3) it depends how much scraping he did and how he used it?
>
> ...and if 3) - define for me some of the possible
> constraints?
>
> - for instance, if he only provided some high-level bits of
> information
> (title, thumbnail, description?) and then linked back to
> the full record -
> is that ok? If not - what?
>
> I suspect that given what Google and any other web spider
> does is happening
> anyway, the answer to 2) would be "no" anyway - but
> interested in your
> thoughts nonetheless
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Mike
>
>
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