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In the US the courts have ruled on this and their answer was “eh?”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Lab
by zarzavat 2y ago
In the US the courts have ruled on this and their answer was “eh?”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
There are 195 other countries you could scrape from though.
As for whether an index constitutes copyright infringement, that depends on its construction, but in the US generally not.
- jerrygoyal 2y agoso Bing can create a different entity in India for crawling and use that to show reddit content in search results? I'm sure they would have already done it it if it was a possibility.
- zarzavat 2y agoIf they bought the index from a company that had compiled it legally according to the law of another country they might be okay. The terms of service bind the legal entity that is accessing Reddit’s servers, whereas reproduction of the data is governed by copyright law. Microsoft would still have to abide by US copyright law but there’s some wiggle room in terms of who is doing the scraping.