copyright copyright-transfer
Can I get user submissions on a website and ask that user to post it on my website?
<p>I'm planning to write an automated tool that will get some informations about a service being sold on auctions sites and send an email to the owner of the website to ask if he wants to also post on my service.</p>

<p>I looked for words like "scraping" and "crawl" in their Terms of Service and Policies to verify if there were some interdiction about it and didn't find them.</p>

<p>Moreover, I won't steal the data, but ask the customer if he wants to post the same data on my service. So the user will have to submit a (pre-filled) form in order to submit his domain on my service.</p>

<p>But still, I'm wondering if I'm allowed to do that.
Moreover, is it possible that the auction service can sue me directly or will they first send me a cease and desist letter?</p>

<p>Thank you for your help.</p>

<p>Copyright is only one of your concerns. </p>

<p>You don't have a relationship with the user and you are sending them an automated email - that's the textbook definition of "spamming" and it's illegal almost everywhere in the world.</p>
