On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 06:10:12PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
The purpose of the flag day is to give people a chance to verify that the Guide does not contain non-original content whose licence would be violated by this change
I've been having a look at the legal pages for both Yell (which I've been using to obtain address and phone number information) and Streetmap (which I've been using to acquire OS co-ordinates for nodes), and I'm unsure as to whether this is permitted at all, even before we take the CC license into consideration.
Yell is full of thick legalese [1], but the relevant section is:
"4. Permitted uses
[...]
For the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, you are expressly prohibited from:
[...]
i. modifying the data or other material from Yell.com ("the Data") or merging the Data with any other data;
[...]
iii. using or redistributing the Data for the purposes of compiling databases, lists or directories, other than as and to the extent necessary to use the Data for a use not prohibited by this paragraph 4"
I'd say that OG definitely falls into the category of a directory, and by adding our content and other data we're definitely falling foul of 4.i. Do we have some kind of fair use exemption here?
Similarly with Streetmap [2]:
"A single print of the results of a map search is permitted for your own personal use. Otherwise the reproduction, copying, downloading, storage, recording, broadcasting, retransmission and distribution of any part of the Streetmap site is not permitted."
Do the OS co-ordinates count as part of the Streetmap site?
Dave
[1] http://www.yell.com/legal/home.html [2] http://www.streetmap.co.uk/disclaimer.htm