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Does this mean that scraping is allowed, regardless of TOC as long as you don’t distribute copyrighted materials? Basically it sounds like the court said “scra
by wodenokoto 6y ago
Does this mean that scraping is allowed, regardless of TOC as long as you don’t distribute copyrighted materials?
Basically it sounds like the court said “scraping data against TOC and publishing scraped data at best amounts to a copyright violation”
- ohmaigad 6y ago> The Ninth Circuit affirmed that any data that required no authorization to access and was freely available by default was fair game for scraping. As the court pointed out, ‘authorization’ to access data is implicit unless steps are taken to restrict general access. Part of Linkedin vs HiQ ruling.
- dodobirdlord 6y agoI think that was the decision of the LinkedIn scraping case about a year ago. It held that you can't have a page that is accessible to the public but not to your competitor's scrapers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn