Per your example, see prior lawsuit between Padmapper and Craigslist. It's public data. I believe this was before Padmapper was monetized so might not have been

Per your example, see prior lawsuit between Padmapper and Craigslist. It's public data. I believe this was before Padmapper was monetized so might not have been a monetization model. This was before Craigslist has its current map view. Didn't change the fact that they were sued on grounds of infringing on data that was public. Whether they were right to do so or not is up to the legal system to decide.