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Is this court arguing that it's legal to scrape a website regardless of theirs ToS? That copyright is the only law that matters on the web for this sort of thin
by larrik 6y ago
Is this court arguing that it's legal to scrape a website regardless of theirs ToS? That copyright is the only law that matters on the web for this sort of thing?
- Aachen 6y agoFrom my 5-minutes-reading-the-comments understanding, this is fairly specific to lyrics because they're not your invention, even if there was work involved in transcribing them. I don't think this applies to scraping different kinds of content. For example, a map is similar but different: no creativity involved (just map what's there) but lots of work. Yet that falls under sui generis database rights (which Wikipedia says the USA doesn't have, but Wikipedia also says they signed a treaty and so they have it... It's complicated) and Google can totally sue me if I copy their map data into OpenStreetMap. (Yet we can't sue them if they use our open data as a distinct but invisible/unlabeled layer.)