Scraping Lawsuit Survives Dismissal Motion–CouponCabin v. Savings.com

We blog pretty much every scraping case we see; we just don’t see many of them. As I’ve told you before, scraping is ubiquitous but of dubious legality. Today’s case…

FTC Wins Deception Case Over Faux User-Generated Content–Fanning v. FTC

…it called “seeding”). Sometimes sites gather content from elsewhere (e.g., via scraping). There are high profile examples of this. Does this now mean that such sites have to have disclaimers…

CSS and HTML Code May Be Copyrightable–Media.net v. Netseer

…evaluate its conclusion. You wonder whether this will affect the scraping landscape. Copyright claims are always part of a scraping plaintiff’s arsenal, and this supports the view that copying a…

Using Scraper to Harvest Records Isn’t Fraudulent Access Under CFAA–Fidlar v. LPS

…Description Aggregator Loses First Round in Fight Against Competitor in Scraping Case — CollegeSource v. AcademyOne * Anti-Scraping Lawsuit Largely Gutted–Cvent v. Eventbrite * Interesting Database Scraping Case Survives Summary…

Another Competitive Keyword Advertising Lawsuit Fails–Infogroup v. DatabaseLLC

…defendants’ databases provided evidence of trade secret misappropriation. But web scraping can’t be trade secret misappropriation when it involves publicly accessible data because, by definition, that data can’t be a…

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…