Topic
Data Scraping
158 published works
Of Digital Interest
LinkedIn Claims Breach of Contract by Bot Users
LinkedIn, the social networking site popular among professionals, recently filed suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against unknown users who deployed automated software programs…
Inside Global Tech
Craigslist wins first step against screenscapers – lesson for drafting TOUs
By Nigel Howard
On April 29, Craigslist was successful in fighting off a motion to dismiss filed by three screenscraping sites (3Taps, Padmapper and Lovely) in its pending litigation in the Northern District…
Inside Privacy
Craigslist wins first step against screenscapers – lesson for drafting TOUs
By Nigel Howard
On April 29, Craigslist was successful in fighting off a motion to dismiss filed by three screenscraping sites (3Taps, Padmapper and Lovely) in its pending litigation in the Northern District…
Global Privacy & Security Compliance Blog
Five Useful Provisions for Your Web Site Terms of Use
By Kevin Boyle
We are often asked to review web site terms of use. Here are five provisions that often seem to be missing in action (in no particular order): No Scraping…
Structured Settlements 4Real® Blog
Google Adsense Mills Right “Out of The Box”
By John Darer
Ever wonder why you see the same crappy articles on structured settlements circulated over and over again on pages where the structured settlement content is an after thought to a…
Structured Settlements 4Real® Blog
Factoring Company Court “Scrapers” Should be Banned
By John Darer
by Structured Settlement Watchdog® In a developing story worthy of a thorough investigation, the word is that at least one factoring company is "hanging out at the courthouse" for Court…
The Trademark Blog
Question for Discussion re Scraping and Wraps
I was mulling the ramifications of the scraping decision in Texas this week as I was standing in my driveway removing my home-delivered NY Times from its blue plastic wrapper,…
Tom Mighell
Has Google stopped frequent crawling?
By Tom Mighell
The Google Weblog reports that Google has apparently fallen down a bit in its policy of crawling certain sites every other day, and that the cached pages from sites that…