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The Not-Quite-So Legal Future for Web Scraping

Plagiarism Today

Namely, it says that scraping content from a publicly accessible website is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), even if such activity is barred by the site’s terms of service. However, a recent ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals aims to clarify a key aspect of web scraping.

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Monthly Wrap Up (December 15, 2022): Noteworthy Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Posts, Cases and Developments

LexBlog IP

Here they are: Noteworthy Defend Trade Secrets Act Cases, Federal Trade Secrets Opinions and Related Commentary: Who would have thought a case about broccoli seeds could sprout so many interesting legal issues? And while we’re on the topic of an opinion covering multiple interesting trade secret issues, the U.S. Certainly not me.