[R-SIG-Finance] TZs

[Brian G. Peterson]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 09:48 -0500, Andrew Miller wrote:
> In relation to this subject, does anybody know the protection status on
> historical financial quote data (stocks, futures) and/or the dissemination
> of graphs/analyses based off such data?
> 
> I thought it would fall in the public domain as the TZ data does, but it
> seems that I am wrong?

IANAL

That said,  you'll have to look at your contracts from your data
providers, or the exchanges that you are connected to.

Even with Yahoo/Google, you clicked on something to allow you to look at
that data.  getSymbols, get.hist.quote, etc. take advantage of
'loopholes' in the data pull methodologies provided by Yahoo/Google/etc.
to download the data.

This is part of the reason that most shops pay a lot of money for data,
in addition to capturing market data directly.  If you captured the data
directly, then it comes down to what the data contract with the exchange
says.  (and I'm certain that there is such a contract, or data clauses
in some other market access contract).

Cheers,

   - Brian

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