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Old 09-21-2018, 07:49 PM   #25
ubercapper
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Originally Posted by Mr.XXX View Post

Sports results are in the public domain; in fact, data providers give away charts results as free downloads. Many users collect them, import them into databases(hard to do with pdf, but doable), slice them and dice them, etc.

The results are NOT being resold.

Re: Sports results are in the public domain.

There is usually a misunderstanding when a generalized statement like this is made, because although some racing information is factual (some examples being finish position, odds and payoffs), some of it is subjective information which is the product of someone's work, a few examples being internal positions and lengths ahead/behind. These are not in the public domain.



Additionally, charts may be available for free but their mere availability does not place them in the public domain, and use of the data is still subject to terms of use.



Re: The results not being sold.

It appears this is not the case here because whatever the fee is, it entitles the user access to the data which was scraped.
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