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The Not-Quite-So Legal Future for Web Scraping

Plagiarism Today

Web scraping has been one of the longest-running themes on this site, with the first articles about it going live as far back as 2006. . The truth is that web scraping has always been controversial, but equally fraught legally. A wide myriad of laws impact, or at least can impact, scraping activities online. .

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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 ”.). Can LinkedIn enjoin hiQ’s scraping on non-CFAA grounds? Who else beyond hiQ has an unrestricted right to scrape LinkedIn? See also the essential facilities discussion below).

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-12-31

Barry Sookman

hiQ: Landmark Data Scraping Suit Provides Guidance to Data Scrapers and Web Operators [link] 2022-12-27. Digital Charter Implementation Act hot topic on lobby circuit | iPolitics [link] 2022-12-27. Can Twitter and Other Online Platforms Legally Moderate Content? link] 2022-12-27. LinkedIn v.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

While this is an unpublished opinion, it is a rather important one, both for the development of the law and because it deals with the abilities of websites to exercise control over their contents and the abilities of others to scrape and use that information. First, the dispute touches on the relations between Google and the World Wide Web.

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Training AI models on Synthetic Data: No silver bullet for IP infringement risk in the context of training AI systems (Part 1 of 4)

LexBlog IP

Yet, beneath the surface of the transformative potential of AI lies a complex legal web of intellectual property (“IP”) risks, particularly concerning the use of “real-world” training data, which may lead to alleged infringement of third-party IP rights if AI training data is not appropriately sourced. Github, Inc. ,

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Artists Attack AI: Why The New Lawsuit Goes Too Far

Copyright Lately

The defendants include Stability AI (developer of Stable Diffusion and DreamStudio ), Midjourney (which packaged the open-source Stable Diffusion into its own  Discord  and  web-based applications) and DeviantArt (which recently launched the DreamUp app, also based on Stable Diffusion’s platform).

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Top 3 posts of the autumn from our IP law blogs

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts 1) Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais “ Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today. Here are the most popular posts over the past few months.