No, but if you created a website that showed what prices stores were selling coke for, Coke couldn't do anything. The facts of an ad are not copyrightable.
If you went and did the work to get those prices (called or visited all of the stores in a city, for instance), then you'd be correct. But if you're scraping someone else's website in an automated fashion, and that's provably true, you're entering into the copyrightability of databases.
There's a material difference - collecting data yourself versus copying someone else's collection of data.
As another example, can I go to Amazon.com (without using their API), scrape all the product names and prices off their web site and map the dates and times they change? I would think not. Those too are facts, but you're basically just copying someone else's database.
Can I scrape stock data off of Yahoo finance without having to pay the license fee associated with getting historical stock data?
> As another example, can I go to Amazon.com (without using their API), scrape all the product names and prices off their web site and map the dates and times they change? I would think not. Those too are facts, but you're basically just copying someone else's database.
Sure. There are plenty of services that do this, it's quite handy. Here's the one I use: http://camelcamelcamel.com/
> Can I scrape stock data off of Yahoo finance without having to pay the license fee associated with getting historical stock data?
Sure. They even provide a CSV format to make it easier for you!
