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…
Can Government Agencies Ban Scraping?–NAACP v. Kohn (Guest Blog Post)
…*8. While the contours of First Amendment protections for scraping are yet to be decided, this opinion shows that scraping is entitled to some protections with government records. And while…
2022 Internet Law Year-in-Review
…payment to LinkedIn (though I bet no cash will actually move), an injunction against scraping, and a requirement to dump the scraped data. So what do we make of the…
Hello, You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Web Scraping Laws (Guest Blog Post, Part 2 of 2)
…or caveat, that “web scraping is legal.” The law related to web scraping is far too nuanced to make such a declarative statement. But there are no shortage of bloggers…
As Everyone Expected Years Ago, hiQ’s CFAA Wins Don’t Mean It Can Freely Scrape–hiQ v. LinkedIn (Guest Blog Post, Part 1 of 2)
…has caused.] hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp. is known—at least by casual observers—as the most pro-web-scraping case in the history of US legal jurisprudence. In two separate opinions, the…
Court Dissolves hiQ’s Injunction Against LinkedIn–hiQ v. LinkedIn
…week] Prior Coverage of hiQ v. LinkedIn Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn Ninth Circuit Says LinkedIn Wrongly Blocked HiQ’s Scraping Efforts LinkedIn Enjoined…