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Pull Content from other websites

Vamsi Krishna Paningapalli

2006-09-24, 6:58 pm

All,

I have one thing to check with you people.

Is it possible to pull the content from the Yahoo! or anyother website
& neatly or reformat & publish on my website ?

For this do i need to have a seperate agreement with Yahoo! or is it
legally permissible ??

Thanks,
--Vamsi

William Tasso

2006-09-24, 6:58 pm

Fleeing from the madness of the http://groups.google.com jungle
Vamsi Krishna Paningapalli <pvamsikris@XXXXXXXXXX> stumbled into
news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:

> All,
>
> I have one thing to check with you people.

just the one?

> Is it possible to pull the content from the Yahoo! or anyother website

yes

> & neatly or reformat & publish on my website ?

maybe - consistently 'neatly' may be the problem if the source markup
changes frequently.

> For this do i need to have a seperate agreement with Yahoo! or is it
> legally permissible ??

No idea, but I would think it only polite to ask.
--
William Tasso

http://williamtasso.com/words/what-is-usenet.asp

Andy Dingley

2006-09-24, 6:58 pm

Vamsi Krishna Paningapalli wrote:

> Is it possible to pull the content from the Yahoo! or anyother website
> & neatly or reformat & publish on my website ?

Hard question - there is no single answer.

It's possible but not easy to "pull" content, so it's rarely done these
days. It's much easier if the source website is already "pushing"
their content through Atom or RSS newsfeeds. If they are, then
searching on these terms will answer your question.

As to the legality of this, then generally if they push it to you, then
it's either encouraged or it is at least clearly described what you can
do with it. If you try and pull it from their site by non-newsfeed
means then they're not encouraging you to do this and they will quite
likely object strongly to you doing it, possibly by legal means. In
most cases, even where they guard their content jealously, they'll
happily sell it to you.

So most of the time, it depends on the site and it's obvious by how
much technical assistance they've already given you.

Matt Probert

2006-09-24, 6:58 pm

On 18 Sep 2006 06:46:51 -0700, "Vamsi Krishna Paningapalli"
<pvamsikris@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:

>All,
>
>I have one thing to check with you people.
>
>Is it possible to pull the content from the Yahoo! or anyother website
>& neatly or reformat & publish on my website ?
>
>For this do i need to have a seperate agreement with Yahoo! or is it
>legally permissible ??

It is an infringement of copyright law. Therefore, you need written
permission from the copyright owner.

Matt

--
Veritas Vincti
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com

John Hosking

2006-09-24, 6:58 pm

Matt Probert wrote:

> It is an infringement of copyright law. Therefore, you need written
> permission from the copyright owner.

I think that actually depends on the content you want to pull. I believe
certain material *can* be re-used under particular licenses, like <waves
hands in vague circles> Creative Commons (CC) or maybe GPL. Consider
Wikipedia, for example.

The asking permission part is certainly a good idea though (unless it
specifically and explicitly says, "take our content if you want").

--
John