Legality of accessing website data
Hello,
I am writing a Safari extension to get and display stock data. My question is as follows:
Many of the sites that give stock quotes (e.g. Yahoo Finance, Quotes.com, etc) prohibit redistribution of information from their pages in the Terms & Conditions, but in this case I am obtaining the data from the site within Safari and then displaying it within the browser.
Is this re-distribution or an allowed use (i.e. same as typing in the URL and going to the page)?
AppleInsider itself has the Apple stock quote at the top of the page for example.
Any insight from AppleInsider staff or anyone else would be helpful.
Thank you.
I am writing a Safari extension to get and display stock data. My question is as follows:
Many of the sites that give stock quotes (e.g. Yahoo Finance, Quotes.com, etc) prohibit redistribution of information from their pages in the Terms & Conditions, but in this case I am obtaining the data from the site within Safari and then displaying it within the browser.
Is this re-distribution or an allowed use (i.e. same as typing in the URL and going to the page)?
AppleInsider itself has the Apple stock quote at the top of the page for example.
Any insight from AppleInsider staff or anyone else would be helpful.
Thank you.
Comments
If you sell the extension Yahoo and the others would get very upset. If the extension is free and you obviously credit the sources and provide links to them they may look the other way, but don't be surprised if you get unpleasant C&D letters from their legal staff.