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Chegg Is Likely to Prevail on Its Anti-Scraping CFAA Claim…But Doesn’t Get an Injunction–Chegg v. Doe (Guest Blog Post)

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Chegg sent a cease-and-desist letter to Homeworkify’s domain registrar, Namecheap, its proxy server, Cloudflare, and the email address associated with domain registration, but they have found nothing. (for When doing so, defendant had to agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. Those terms and privacy policies were hyperlinked.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In that case, Judge Easterbrook wrote, in finding that a “shrinkwrap” license was enforceable against the defendant: But are rights created by contract “equivalent to any of the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright”? Google changed its privacy policy to collect all “public” data (viz.,

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Game On! Bright Data Scores Major Victory in Web-Scraping Dispute with Meta (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

precedent, could Meta just amend its terms, send another cease-and-desist, and revisit this, or does this case repudiate that whole line of precedent? He’s going out of his way to enable them–despite the broad-scale movement elsewhere to crack down on data brokers and enhance consumer privacy. Verio, Inc.

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Hello, You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Web Scraping Laws (Guest Blog Post, Part 2 of 2)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

There is the famous example of NYU data researchers who received a cease-and-desist letter from Facebook/Meta for doing research on Facebook’s algorithm. The post Hello, You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Web Scraping Laws (Guest Blog Post, Part 2 of 2) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Our blog post on the original Ninth Circuit ruling: “ Ninth Circuit Says LinkedIn Wrongly Blocked HiQ’s Scraping Efforts ”.). The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles.

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TOS Supports Injunction Against Web Scraping–Southwest Airlines v. Kiwi

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It sent Kiwi cease and desist letters and has implemented security measures, but “Kiwi has continued to hack the Southwest website and sell Southwest flights without permission.”. In addition, Southwest sent Kiwi several cease and desist letters. Kiwi appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Are Your Publicity Rights Protected for the AI Surge?

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This isn’t just a concern for celebrities and influencers but signals a broader threat to the privacy and rights of everyday individuals as well. Licensing Publicity Rights: A Lucrative Yet Risky Venture Many have sought to get ahead of the curve and capitalize on their publicity rights with AI.