Nov.-Dec. 2010 Quick Links, Part 3 (Special Extra-Long Copyright Edition)
By Eric Goldman * Oracle got a $1.3B jury verdict in its anti-scraping lawsuit against SAP. My prior blog coverage (1, 2, 3). This is one of the largest copyright…
“Trends in Internet Law” Talk Slides
…designed to prop up online authenticity using regulatory tools. * Scraping * First Sale and Exhaustion. I’ll write a separate blog post recapping our excellent event last week. * Are…
Anti-Scraping Lawsuit Largely Gutted–Cvent v. Eventbrite
…have it that way.” This is the basic litigation posture that Facebook is taking with Power.com–Facebook Connect yes, scraping no. Coverage of Other Scraping Cases We don’t have a scraping…
Another Trademark Owner Apparently Gives Up Lawsuit Against Google–Parts Geek v. US Auto Parts
…Parts and Google. It’s not clear if the venue transfer was fatal to the case, but it certainly didn’t help Parts Geek’s cause. There was an interesting competitive website scraping…
Interesting Database Scraping Case Survives Summary Judgment–Snap-On Business Solutions v. O’Neil
…to anyone who thinks scraping solves a business problem they are having. If anything, this case was unusually defense-favorable because the replacement vendor (O’Neil) was scraping the customer’s (Mitsubishi’s) data…
CAN-Spam-a-Friend?–Hoang v. Reunion.com
Hoang v. Reunion.com sidesteps an eagerly anticipated legal dispute over the legality of commercial address book scraping and ‘send-to-a-friend’ emails, and also highlights the damage that can cascade when a…
July 2008 Quick Links, Part II (Non-IP Edition)
…the finger-pointing at SAP for supervising its subsidiary. Still unresolved: the size of SAP’s check to Oracle, and possible jailtime for TomorrowNow folk. * Thomas O’Toole: Illinois adds anti-scraping provision…
Jan. 2008 Quick Links (Non-IP Edition)
…a great article on scraping data from major Internet players, many of whom themselves use scraping-like methodologies to gather data: “But beneath all the kumbayas, there’s an awkward dance going…