Reddit Challenges Anthropic’s Scraping to Create Generative AI Models (Guest Blog Post)
by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy With as much scraping as is happening for AI training and enhancement these days, it’s amazing to me that there aren’t more lawsuits happening over…
A Review of the NYT v. Microsoft AI-Copyright Ruling (Guest Blog Post)
…scraping public data to create training data sets to build large language models (“LLMs”). Though Microsoft is the named defendant in the case, the real players here are the New…
Price Lists Aren’t Copyrightable–Rapaport v. Nivoda
…is an online retailer[FN] that displays how its prices are discounted compared to the Rapaport prices (see screenshot). In theory, someone could collect the Rapaport prices by scraping Nivoda’s discounts…
Blogiversary: Guest Bloggers of the Technology & Marketing Law Blog (Part 8 of 10)
…to chattels, web-scraping, and data-access issues. For years, I followed the blog like everyone else because I had clients in the space, and Eric and Venkat were the only people…
Jess Miers Reflects on the Blogiversary (Part 6 of 10)
…Kieran McCarthy on the complex landscape of data scraping law) and a rich source of research material. More importantly, in an era where history risks being forgotten or rewritten, the…
Court Overturns a Bad Jury Verdict Against Scraping–Ryanair v Booking (Guest Blog Post)
by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy This summer, I wrote that the jury trial between Ryanair and Booking Holdings ended in the strangest way possible. The jury returned a verdict that…
Catching Up on the Heavyweight Scraping Battle Between X and Bright Data (Guest Blog Post)
…It’s rare in the web-scraping world when a party that seeks to stop scraping engages with a company with the resources to fight back and the appetite to do so….
Announcing the 2024 Edition of My Internet Law Casebook
…new words of explanatory material, revamped the materials to focus on scraping, and added an excerpt from X v. Bright Data on the TTC issue. That case will surely be…
Ryanair v. Booking CFAA Trial Ends with Strangest Possible Outcome (Guest Blog Post)
…scraping and data-access legal disputes historically feature David vs. Goliath-type fact patterns. A relatively small number of companies (LinkedIn, Meta, Google) control much of the valuable data on the Internet….
Facebook Makes Some Progress Against a Scraper–Meta v. Voyager (Guest Blog Post)
by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Companies looking to stop web scraping have suffered a losing streak in the Northern District of California recently. In February, Meta lost on Partial Summary…