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Data Scraping
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Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Relitigating hiQ Labs and Scraping Through the Lens of the DMCA 1201 Anti-Circumvention (Guest Blog Post)
By Eric Goldman
by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy A series of prominent web-scraping lawsuits are revisiting the fundamentals of public data access. And in so doing, with a slight reframing of a relatively…
eDiscovery Today Blog
This AI Licensing Standard for Scraping Web Content is Now Official: Artificial Intelligence Trends
By Doug Austin
There’s a new AI licensing standard for scraping web content, which is now official. The question is: will it protect their content? The post This AI Licensing Standard for Scraping…
AI Law and Policy
Anti-Circumvention: Reddit’s Case Against Perplexity
By Samuel Cohen
On October 22, 2025, Reddit, Inc. filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against Perplexity AI, Inc. and associated data-scraping firms, alleging violations of the Digital…
SDNY Blog
Reddit Sues Perplexity AI and Data Scrapers for “Industrial-Scale” Theft of “Valuable Copyrighted Content”
On Wednesday, Reddit Inc. sued Perplexity AI and three "data scrapers," alleging the companies are circumventing its technological safeguards to unlawfully acquire Reddit's copyrighted data to "feed" Perplexity's artificial intelligence…
Privacy Matters
Australia: Scraping the barrel – when data scraping breaches the Privacy Act
By Sarah Birkett, Clarissa Kwee, Carol Lin
What is data scraping? Data scraping is an automated process through which computer programs extract vast amounts of data from the internet at a faster rate than manual data collection…
AI Law and Policy
Beyond Copyright: Reddit’s Lawsuit Against Anthropic
By Samuel Cohen, Chandler Lawn*
On June 4, 2025, Reddit, Inc. (“Reddit”) filed suit against Anthropic, PBC (“Anthropic”) in the Superior Court of California, alleging that Anthropic scraped and commercially exploited Reddit user data—including deleted…
AI Law and Policy
OECD Report on Data Scraping and AI – What Companies Can Do Now as Policymakers Consider the Issues
By James Gatto
The power of large language models (LLMs) that enables generative AI derives from vast quantities of data. Much of this data comes from scraping all forms of content from the…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
Media companies’ lawsuit against OpenAI latest in growing number of challenges to AI data scraping
At least two other lawsuits have been filed against AI-driven companies since September
The Legal Wire
Bluesky’s Open API Sparks Controversy Over Data Scraping for AI Training
By Lexi Aida
Bluesky, a social network, is facing scrutiny after reports emerged that its public posts were harvested for machine learning research. While Bluesky itself claims it does not train AI systems…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
Global Privacy Authorities reinforce guidelines to combat data scraping
They build on last year's guidance, offering clearer directions for social media companies