No Feed, No Mashup, No Mapplet?

John Herren's Blog quotes the Terms of Service for Google Labs and concludes that scraping and mashups are prohibited. Hmm ... maybe. If a Google Trends Mapplet is allowed, then why not a Mapplet or mashup for Hot Trends?

Perhaps the problem is not making a mashup, but making one on a site that isn't hosted by Google. On this view, making a feed with a non-Google service could be a problem. Accordingly, I've deleted the Hot Trends feed.

In any event, I won't proceed with a Mapplet or mashup unless and until I figure out what's permitted by the TOS.