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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 5196054" data-attributes="member: 13107">Hi,That note is interesting, but a little weak.  Scraping graphics for slide presentation may be fairly harmless, but it could very often be illegal.I think a key issue will be how much data is scraped, as well as to what use it is put, and how long it is retained.My understanding is that you have a fair use right to retain the data temporarily, for specific uses, and that you definitely do not have the right to retain major portions of the data for lengthy periods of time, unless you have be granted that right by the copyright holder.The issue that I can see Hasbro having is that MasterPlan enables an infringement, in that too much data is scraped, and that data is retained for too long.Can someone answer a question as to whether or not you are permitted to scan data from books that you own, and whether you own a printed copy of material if that allows mass scraping?  (Inverted, if I have a PDF, absent a specific provision, am I allowed to make a print-out of that PDF?)As far as what mass scraping is legitimate, that is an interesting question.  However, the notion that an indexing bot has the right to perform mass scraping seems to be turning out to be no, if the recent problems that Google has been having in regards to its attempt to create an index to all printed material, including the ability to display select (small) portions of the data, is to be taken as a guide.Thx!</blockquote>

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