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Data Scraping
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New Media and Technology Law Blog
Ninth Circuit Issues Important Decision on Software Licensing Practices and Web Scraping
UPDATE: On September 27, 2018, the Supreme Court granted Rimini Street, Inc.’s petition for a writ of certiorari asking the Court to review part of the multi-million dollar damage award…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Google Extends Commitments with the FTC over Crawling of Third-Party Content for Use in Own “Vertical” Sites
In a blog post last month, Google announced that it would extend certain commitments it made to the FTC in 2012 that were set to expire relating to, among other…
O-I-CEE!
PSD2 Fintech Puzzle – To Screen Scrape or Not to Screen Scrape?
The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) recently published (on 12 January 2018) a long-awaited statement relating to the “selected regulator’s expectations” as regards the interim period(s) relating to the implementation of…
Socially Aware Blog
2018: Predictions From Socially Aware’s Editors and Contributors
Happy 2018 to our readers! It has become a Socially Aware tradition to start the New Year with some predictions from our editors and contributors. With smart contracts on the…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Supreme Court Denies Appeals of Notable Data Scraping, Computer Fraud Decisions from Ninth Circuit
This past week, the Supreme Court denied the petitions for certiorari in two noteworthy Ninth Circuit decisions that had interpreted the scope of liability under the federal Computer Fraud and…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
LinkedIn Files Opening Brief with Ninth Circuit in Closely-Watched Data Scraping Dispute with hiQ
In a new development in an important scraping dispute, LinkedIn appealed the lower court's decision to grant a preliminary injunction compelling LinkedIn to disable any technical measures it had employed…
Incontestable Blog
District Court Rules that Startup Can Use Web Scrapers to Collect Information from Public LinkedIn Profiles, Despite Protests for LinkedIn
On August 14, 2017, on a motion for preliminary injunction, the District Court for the Northern District of California held that LinkedIn, a social network owned by Microsoft, Inc., could…
Michigan Employment Law Advisor
Court Blocks LinkedIn From Restricting Access to User Profiles
By Jason Shinn
A Federal Judge recently blocked LinkedIn from restricting another company from using data from LinkedIn's website. The suit involves Linkedin and hiQ Labs, Inc. The suit also has significant ramifications for…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Ending Data Scraping Dispute, Craigslist Reaches $31M Settlement with Instamotor
Craigslist has used a variety of technological and legal methods to prevent unauthorized parties from violating its terms of use by scraping, linking to, or accessing user postings for their…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Court Issues Injunction Barring Blocking of Scraping and Holds CFAA Likely Doesn’t Apply
A Green Light for Screen Scraping? Proceed With Caution… UPDATE: As expected, LinkedIn appealed the lower court's decision to grant a preliminary injunction compelling LinkedIn to disable any technical measures…