Legality of Web Scraping User-Submitted Content?
jonmc12: A few years back I wanted to set up a menu service - putting a bunch of restaurant menus online so that others could search.  My lawyer advised that because the restaurant made these materials open in the public domain, we could basically do whatever we wanted with them.  As if they were public property.I'm not sure how this relates to other kind of content from a legal standpoint, but I've used it to ask myself 'did this person intend for this information to be public' as sort of an ethical guideline.