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by hwers 1576 days ago
Well I don't think importing tweets and displaying them is allowed by their ToS for instance (even though some apps do), nor instagram pics.
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The user owns the data, not the platform. The data is just ISBN numbers, dates, review comments and so on anyway.

It would probably be illegal to crawl Goodreads, if that’s what you’re thinking about?

I believe in some cases (e.g. instagram) the user agreement you sign when using the site makes your copyright over e.g. the pictures you upload be handed over to the site owners (again, to prevent competition). Just to point out that the common sense idea that "you own the data" thing isn't always true. Nevertheless this question has been resolved through other comments on here so it seems not to be the case in this scenario.