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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

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sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. 2015) (emphasis added). Here, the court agreed, and dismissed Twitter’s breach-of-contract claims on that basis. on all counts.

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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.”. Southwest asserts claims under the CFAA, the Texas computer crime statute, breach of contract, and trademark.

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Does the CFAA Help Airlines Control Their Distribution Channels?–RyanAir v. Booking (Guest Blog Post)

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But much of this business model is contingent on being able to sell flights directly through Ryanair’s site to control the market for ancillary services. As usual in these types of cases, Ryanair sent cease-and-desist letters to Booking telling it to stop. 2015 WL 1289984 at 4 (N.D. March 20, 2015). emphasis mine).

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Injunctive relief (Section 97(1) UrhG) and cease and desist agreements.

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

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Then he reversed course on remand and ruled in favor of LinkedIn on its breach of contract claims. On January 23rd, Judge Chen once again dropped a bombshell for the web-scraping world (and those looking to stop it) by ruling in favor of Bright Data and against Meta on its breach of contract claims at summary judgment. Bright Data Ltd.