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Data Scraping
158 published works
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
Grabbing Data Via Excel
By Greg Lambert
My Workshop for the South AfricanOnline Users Group Meeting inbeautiful Pretoria, South Africa (6/7/16) It's been a while now since I've written a truly geeky post that didn't focus on…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Craigslist Files Another Suit against Data Scraper
For years, craigslist has aggressively used technological and legal methods to prevent unauthorized parties from scraping, linking to or accessing user postings for their own commercial purposes. In a prior…
On Competition Law and Economics
News Corp Complains about Google
News Corp Complains about Google News Corp recently filed a complaint with the European Commission against Google over “improper scraping of content for use in search results.” News Corp alleges…
Socially Aware Blog
Data for the Taking: Using Website Terms and Conditions to Combat Web Scraping
By Susan McLean, Mercedes Samavi
Is it stealing to take data without permission from a public website, or is it simply making use of resources that are made available to you? “Web scraping” or “screen…
Tech Law Blog
Ryanair in another victory against the screenscrapers
In the wake of its recent win against "screenscraper" website eDreams, Ryanair has claimed another victory following a referral from the Dutch Supreme Court to the Court of Justice of…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
QVC Sues Shopping App for Web Scraping That Allegedly Triggered Site Outage
Operators of public-facing websites are typically concerned about the unauthorized, technology-based extraction of large volumes of information from their sites, often by competitors or others in related businesses. The practice,…
ContractsProf Blog
Craigslist’s Liquidated Damages Clause – Are Actual Damages Too Difficult To Calculate?
By Myanna DellingerCraigslist has decided to crack down on companies that use data from its websites to generate ads on competing websites. Technically, this can be and is done by various…
Socially Aware Blog
Hot Off the Press: The August Issue of Our Socially Aware Newsletter Is Now Available
By John Delaney, Gabriel Meister, Aaron Rubin
The latest issue of our Socially Aware newsletter is now available here. In this issue of Socially Aware, our Burton Award-winning guide to the law and business of social media,…
Socially Aware Blog
Data for the Taking: Using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to Combat Web Scraping
“Web scraping” or “web harvesting”—the practice of extracting large amounts of data from publicly available websites using automated “bots” or “spiders”—accounted for 18% of site visitors and 23% of all…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Scraping Facebook, Crude Oil Spills, Social Media Discovery
After spending about all of last week covering the 2014 LMA Annual Conference, we are fully back into the swing of things. In today's Top 10, McCutcheon continues to bea …