What data can I scrape out of online resources about plants without worrying about copyright infringement?

TheFind: Is it copyright infringement if TheFind uses web crawlers to get product images/photos from retailers' websites?

• I understand that TheFind gets some of the product information via data feed. If it also obtains product information(photos/images) via web crawling and without retailers' permission - is that not copyright infringement?

• Answer:

  Lets look at it this way - Do google or bing image search have copyright infringement problems? No, because they clearly attribute it to the source. Same is the case with TheFind. We are getting product images from Nordstrom (say), but those images explicitly point back to the merchant and help drive traffic to the merchant. Hence it is fair use. If you listed the image publicly, its owned by you but its public. Its like your telephone number listed in a directory. You can opt out of TheFind listing you or Google listing you by using robots.txt, just like you can opt out of the telephone directory.