Court Says Twitter Misused Litigation to Punish Defendants for Their Speech–X v. CCDH
…contracting, that breach of the ToS’s scraping provision would result in damages of “at least tens of millions of dollars.” X Corp. alleges that “CCDH engaged in its unlawful scraping…
Facebook Drops Anti-Scraping Lawsuit Against Bright Data (Guest Blog Post)
…than it does about outsiders scraping their public data now. My hunch is that they know that any success in anti-scraping cases can be thrown back at them in their…
Think You Understand Online Trespass to Chattels Law? Think Again–In re Meta Healthcare Pixels
…rely on Northern District cases that have entered judgment in favor of Meta on data scraping cases based on mere use.” 🙄🙄 However, the court doesn’t analyze this aspect at…
Game On! Bright Data Scores Major Victory in Web-Scraping Dispute with Meta (Guest Blog Post)
…Meta’s “anti-scraping team” told Bright Data to stop scraping its data. Bright Data responded by closing its Meta accounts and terminating its online contracts with Meta. Meta said that its…
Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)
…dovetails with one of my main practice areas, web scraping. And every time I read a preemption case in the context of web scraping, I feel that the earth might…
Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee (Guest Blog Post)
…companies on earth—including Meta and Microsoft—take aggressive, litigious approaches to prohibiting web scraping on their own properties, while taking liberal approaches to scraping data on other companies’ properties. When we…
Announcing the 2023 Edition of My Internet Law Casebook
…portions) and the Hamidi ruling. These are all 20 years old and don’t really represent the core doctrines today. This means I am actively seeking a CFAA/scraping case that can…
Chegg Is Likely to Prevail on Its Anti-Scraping Contracts Claim…But Doesn’t Get an Injunction–Chegg v. Doe (Guest Blog Post)
by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Most web-scraping cases fit into one of two categories: Cases where companies are innovating with data in ways that data hosts/owners don’t like, and courts…
Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)
…of “intercept[ing] traffic from third-party websites by forcibly scraping their content and placing it directly on Google’s own site.” To a degree, it also mirrors the difficult question concerning the…
After hiQ Labs, Is Scraping Public Data Legal? (Guest Blog Post)
…is the world’s biggest scraping company, headquartered in Israel. Meta is Meta. On the surface, this case follows the fact pattern of nearly all web-scraping cases. Bright Data allegedly scraped…