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[JamesMA]

I've just found this site www.as400-news.com, could I just borrow the technical
data from the web site or do I need special permission?. I am doing a  project for school.

James

[Kaitlin]

Can't see the site, but generally speaking under copyright law data itself is free to be used by anyone.*  By contrast, the way in which the data is arranged or displayed, however, usually cannot be copied without permission from the author/copyright holder, unless the data is merely arranged in some normal, logical non-creative way, such as alphabetically. 

That being said, if you're a student and you are actually copying the layout some of the data, even if the data's only arranged alphabetically or in a simple pie chart, make sure you also check with your school's policy on copying.  Sometimes schools' policies on copying have their own quirks apart from copyright law. 

*Of course, you should give attribution to the source in any event, but that's separate from copyright law.

[Zonath]

The site is just a copy of Wikipedia articles as well as about a dozen 'articles' which were apparently written for SEO purposes.

[JSonnabend]

You may copy data -- that is, facts -- from any site freely.  You have to be careful not to impermissibly copy the expression of those facts.  Of course, what would be "impermissible" is a difficult question.

- Jeff