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Data Scraping
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New Media and Technology Law Blog
Reflections on the TechLaw Issues of 2018…and a Look Forward. Will 2019 Be a Year on the Edge, in the Fog, or Maybe Just in the Cloud?
Yes, it’s time for the end-of-year blog post – a look back at interesting issues of 2018 and a look forward to what we see coming down the pike in…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Podcast: Data Scraping
Data Scraping sounds like something painful that you would have to experience at the dentist. It is actually the term for aggregating information that is available on the internet and…
Byte Back
Data Scraping: Legal and Business Implications to Know
What if your next idea—which could be the next big idea—involves a web-based collection, compilation, or a sliver of “big data” that is so ingenious that customers and investors will line…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
CFAA and Breach of Contract Claims Dismissed in Website Data Scraping Suit
UPDATE: On November 1, 2018, the court dismissed the plaintiff’s amended complaint (which apparently dropped the CFAA claim and asserted Lanham Act and DMCA claims). Specifically, the plaintiff asserted, among…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Court Denies TRO against Data Scraper That Accessed Private Database via Registered Accounts
UPDATE: On October 22, 2018, the court denied the defendant’s CEO’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. Subsequently, on January 2, 2019, the parties settled the matter and…
The Data Advisor
Federal Judge Allows Researchers’ First Amendment Challenge to CFAA’s “Access” Provision to Move Forward
On March 30, 2018, in Sandvig v. Sessions,1 the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that a group of academic researchers can move forward with their First…
Technology Law Dispatch
D.C. federal court rules that web scraping does not violate the CFAA and may be protected by the First Amendment
On March 30, 2018, a D.C. federal district court denied a motion to dismiss an ACLU case filed against the government to challenge the constitutionality of the Computer Fraud and…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Researchers May Challenge the Constitutionality of the CFAA “Access” Provision as Applied to Web Scraping
Such Scraping “Plausibly Falls within the Ambit of the First Amendment” The Ninth Circuit is currently considering the appeal of the landmark hiQ decision, where a lower court had granted…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Data Aggregator Seeks Ruling Allowing It to Scrape Public LinkedIn Data
UPDATE: On February 22, 2018, the district court granted 3taps’s motion to relate its action to the ongoing hiQ v. LinkedIn litigation. This motion was based upon a local Northern…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
CFAA “Unauthorized Access” Web Scraping Claim against Ticket Broker Dismissed Because Revocation of Access Not Expressed in Cease and Desist Letter
A California district court issued an important opinion in a dispute between a ticket sales platform and a ticket broker that employed automated bots to purchase tickets in bulk. (Ticketmaster…