Legality of Web Scraping User-Submitted Content?
uvince: News is one case, but how about the millions ratings & reviews floating out there on the web? What about this site? http://www.boorah.com/restaurants/CA/palo-alto/the-counter/A...They scrape, re-present abstracts from and supposedly do calculations based on of the entirety of user-submitted data collected by a number of sites.Does that violate fair use in anyone's opinion?