Q4 2014 & Q1 2015 Quick Links Part 4 (Potpourri)
…others to obtain Facebook accounts to run ads which were never paid for. * Law360: Craigslist Submits $2.1M Judgment Deal In Site Scraping Suit. Related post. * Medium: The Troll’s…
QVC Can’t Stop Web Scraping–QVC v. Resultly (Forbes Cross-Post)
…in Fight Against Competitor in Scraping Case — CollegeSource v. AcademyOne * Anti-Scraping Lawsuit Largely Gutted–Cvent v. Eventbrite * Interesting Database Scraping Case Survives Summary Judgment–Snap-On Business Solutions v. O’Neil…
Equivocal Email Exchanges Don’t Transfer Copyright Ownership
…Frost Court Rules That Instant Message Conversation Modified the Terms of a Written Contract — CX Digital v. Smoking Everywhere Multiple Listing Service Gets Favorable Appellate Ruling in Scraping Lawsuit…
Q3 2014 Quick Links, Part 2 (Content Regulation)
…LinkedIn censors its members in China…globally * Google settled the stockholder lawsuit over selling illegal pharmaceutical ads. Prior blog post. * GigaOm: Craigslist is ramping up its anti-scraping liquidated damages….
Company That Facilitates Digital Access to Public Records Uses CFAA to Block Scraper
…Dworkin. That case involved accusations of theft around scraping, and the court said that given the legal uncertainty around scraping, these types of statements were not actionable. The court here…
Calling Out Scraper for “Stealing” Data Is Not Defamatory – Tamburo v. Dworkin
…“is based on nothing but conjecture.” __ These claims are an interesting twist to the underlying scraping dispute between the parties. Scraping is a classic Internet law topic and a…
Craigslist Wins Routine But Troubling Online Trespass to Chattels Ruling in 3Taps Case (Catch-up Post)
…Craigslist tried to shut down 3Taps’ scraping, first by blocking its IP addresses and then by sending a cease-and-desist (C&D) letter. When those didn’t work, Craigslist sued for, among other…
Email Exchange Creates Binding Settlement Agreement Per UETA–Forcelli v. Gelco
…in Scraping Lawsuit * Can A Copyright Be Assigned By Email?–Hermosilla v. Coca-Cola * Court Rules That Instant Message Conversation Modified the Terms of a Written Contract — CX Digital…
Multiple Listing Service Gets Favorable Appellate Ruling in Scraping Lawsuit
…a follow-up to our massive post on anti-scraping lawsuits in the real estate industry from New Year’s Eve 2012 (Note: the portion on MRIS is about halfway through the post,…
Catching Up on 512 Safe Harbor Cases (and Other Online Copyright Cases) From the Past Year
…monitoring service” for public relations professionals, i.e., it allows clients to set keyword alerts and find documents containing those keywords. Meltwater builds its database by scraping the web and delivering…