On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:43:35PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:
On Thu 17 May 2007, Tom Heath tom.heath@gmail.com wrote:
Ooh, brilliant! I can add the Good Beer Guide pubs in the area, if you like? I have a copy of the 2007 GBG, and a scripty thing to make uploading them easier.
On that subject, what's the licensing status for this data? I'd love to add it into Revyu, but is it "owned" in some fashion by the GBG?
As I understand it (although only through having read stuff written by the copyright paranoia fanatics on Wikipedia), it's not possible to copyright facts such as "this pub is mentioned in the Good Beer Guide" or "this pub is open from 9am to midnight".
However, you seem to be harvesting information from what is essentially a database, and database rights (separate from copyright - the rights you acquire when compiling a database) apply to databases.
The details are murky and complex and for this reason I find it's best to avoid this sort of activity.
Dominic.