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Is it legal to use google translate output in my own app?
<p>I am little bit confused about legal aspect of retrieving translation from google.translate. Is it legal to programmatically open google.translate page (user do not see it) -> then my program gets translation by means of google.translate interface  -> then my program copying translation into app? Is translation output copyrighted? Is translation text output - content from google Service?</p>

<p>This website has “terms of service” that you need to follow. If you want to create a French version of your app, you can go to the website and get translations (unless the TOS disallow commercial use). There is no copyright on a purely mechanical translation. </p>

<p>But if one million copies of your app access the site, that’s likely to be against their TOS. Access by non-humans is likely against their TOS. Copyright doesn’t come into it. But using the site against their Terms of Service might trigger some nasty laws against you. </p>

<p>And with Google on the other side, I wouldn’t try to do anything “smart” like the arguments in your question. </p>
