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Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms (April 2022) [1]: > Using a “gate-up, gate-down” analogy, the Supreme Court said that when a computer or webs
by tedmiston 4y ago
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms (April 2022) [1]:
> Using a “gate-up, gate-down” analogy, the Supreme Court said that when a computer or website’s gates are up — and therefore information is publicly accessible — no authorization is required.
> The Ninth Circuit, in referencing the Supreme Court’s “gate-up, gate-down” analogy, ruled that “the concept of ‘without authorization’ does not apply to public websites.”
[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/
- sneak 4y agoScraping is one thing; reproduction is another. I can scrape the Times but I don't get to mirror their site on my own domain.
- tedmiston 4y agoI've always wondered how this isn't more of an issue for the common archivers and news sites...
- zh3 4y agoIndeed, Crunchbase even host photos that they've scraped from other websites - how do they work around the image copyright? (I know profiles where they've taken copies of staff photos from a corporate website where they most certainly don't have permission to reproduce).