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>No live feed, no map, and certainly no counter of closed restaurants I wouldn't be so sure about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index#/media/File...
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Don't blame the legal department. They are legally required to send a C&D in situations like that or they can lose their trademarks.
What about the Big Mac index that the Economist uses to measure purchase price parity across countries?
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Don't blame the legal department. They are legally required to send a C&D in situations like that or they can lose their trademarks.
What about the Big Mac index that the Economist uses to measure purchase price parity across countries?
IIRC the marketing team embraced it on social posts and reached out to share some merch as acknowledgment.
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I believe scraping is generally ok - there's actual trademark law about trademarks, which is why you got a c+d about trademark usage, instead of a general 'stop what you're doing we don't like it' c+d. A good point of comparison is steam db (and other similar sites), which uses Steam public info to triangulate market info that isn't immediately apparent. https://steamdb.info/
Unfortunately Craigslist pushed a precedent that puts scraping into risky territory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps_Inc . Obviously this was a much different circumstance than a not-for-profit side project but still something to keep in mind.
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Unfortunately Craigslist pushed a precedent that puts scraping into risky territory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps_Inc . Obviously this was a much different circumstance than a not-for-profit side project but still something to keep in mind.
All the AI companies are doing it so it must be fine. Right?
I put up a (much less interesting and more nerdily annoyed) site that described how Dannon / Danone was using made-up sciency names for the bacteria in their yoghurt, and their legal department got in touch. I didn't back down: https://whatisbifidusregularis.org/legal-action-against-this... I think this example would have been fine if the Waffle House branding had been removed. Then just put a big disclaimer at the t…
Your website seems to be an aggregator of surface-level news blurbs from the mainstream media and some interviews with individual physicians. There are claims about "made-up" names and "correct scientific names". Putting health claims aside, there are no citations to any legislation that may have prevented a manufacturer from writing these names on a label. This website has a UK perspective, but I was trying to recal…