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HR 3261 and the ownership of factsHR 3261 and the ownership of factsPosted Jan 29, 2004 14:30 UTC (Thu) by jeremiah (subscriber, #1221)Parent article: HR 3261 and the ownership of facts Not sure how to feel about this law. I think the stated intent could be a good thing, but as usual something has gone horribly wrong. Congress has this horrible habit of making laws overly broad. The corporate side of me sees it as a goodthing though. I've spent years coding a system that agregates court records so that the courts can have a sort of portal with the public. It's a totaly free thing for the public, but I spend a large amount of my time blocking companies scraping the data, and then reselling it for a profit.
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HR 3261 and the ownership of facts Posted Jan 29, 2004 15:39 UTC (Thu) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813) [Link] If the data is free for the public and your portal system provides free public access whats wrong with the scraping, repackaging, and reselling of the data?
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