May not be illegal, but is against the T&Cs of the site, so could be a civil matter if the original site decided to argue it in court…
Similar or not, a lot of very highly-paid lawyers would love to argue over this for weeks. My general argument is this whole situation is not as clear-cut and black-and-white as the developer in question asserts,…
And without those IP permissions in place, in the form of written approval by the bus company to use their data, he risks opening one almighty can of worms…
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but I agree you have done work that should be protectable. I commend you for approaching them, but you shouldn’t have given up. Without written agreement from bus company that you have…
Except his own act of compiling is by ‘scraping’ the original source, against their own copyrights and T&Cs. In the case of a bus company’s timetable their own data—the times they run to, routes, etc.—is not public…
I guess one obvious question is do you have permission from the Dublin Bus company to use their data yourself? From their T&Cs (http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/Legal/) ‘No part of this website may be copied, performed in…
May not be illegal, but is against the T&Cs of the site, so could be a civil matter if the original site decided to argue it in court…
Similar or not, a lot of very highly-paid lawyers would love to argue over this for weeks. My general argument is this whole situation is not as clear-cut and black-and-white as the developer in question asserts,…
And without those IP permissions in place, in the form of written approval by the bus company to use their data, he risks opening one almighty can of worms…
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but I agree you have done work that should be protectable. I commend you for approaching them, but you shouldn’t have given up. Without written agreement from bus company that you have…
Except his own act of compiling is by ‘scraping’ the original source, against their own copyrights and T&Cs. In the case of a bus company’s timetable their own data—the times they run to, routes, etc.—is not public…
I guess one obvious question is do you have permission from the Dublin Bus company to use their data yourself? From their T&Cs (http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/Legal/) ‘No part of this website may be copied, performed in…