Q3 2011 Quick Links, Part 1 (Copyright Edition)
…research to publishers. * A significant Canadian ruling against scraping in a lawsuit between Century 21 and Zoocasa. Michael Geist’s coverage. * Turnitin’s “WriteCheck” service lets students preview the plagiarism…
The 9th Circuit Tackles a Pair of Internet Jurisdiction Cases
…of the dispute between the parties: “College Course Description Aggregator Loses First Round in Fight Against Competitor in Scraping Case.”) The district court granted AcademyOne’s motion to dismiss for lack…
April-May 2011 Quick Links, Part 3
…Enables The Google Social “Scraping” It’s Upset About.” * Not everyone loves the WSJ “What They Know” series. * Kate Kaye of ClickZ on which of the half-dozen Congressional privacy…
College Course Description Aggregator Loses First Round in Fight Against Competitor in Scraping Case — CollegeSource v. AcademyOne
…an unnecessarily high-risk move for CollegeSource to bring this iteration of the lawsuits. Having said that, AcademyOne’s experience reiterates the potential problems with scraping. Inevitably, scraping will gather up legally…
Top 5 Cyberlaw Developments of 2010, Plus a 2010 Year-in-Review
…scraping. Oracle hit a grand slam with the damages in this case, ranking highly on several all-time-largest-awards charts. And the top cyberlaw story of the year goes to… #1: Wikileaks….
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…