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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. 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. In November 2023, X corp. on all counts.

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Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

For example, the most aggressive companies in pursuing web-scraping litigation are the social media companies. And while their terms of use provide the social media companies a license to use that user-generated content, it is their users who typically have a copyright interest in their content.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Booking Holdings is the parent company of multiple OTAs that publish fare data and sell Ryanair flights in purported violation of Ryanair’s terms of service. As usual in these types of cases, Ryanair sent cease-and-desist letters to Booking telling it to stop. The facts of the case are relatively simple, with a couple of twists.

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Book review: Copyright in the street. An Oral History of Creative Processes in Street Art and Graffiti Subcultures

The IPKat

The use of cease-and-desist letters is widespread too. It is also pointed out that the lack of respect for authorship rights can be explained by the difficulty for publishers to identify and contact the artists and photographers of the works. the type of permission, payment, and contract). because of rain).

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After hiQ Labs, Is Scraping Public Data Legal? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Meta sent Bright Data a series of cease-and-desist notices telling it to stop. And when it was FaceMash, it got its first users by scraping and publishing a bunch of online facebook directories without the subjects’ consent. Much digital ink has been spilled on online contract formation; much less on online contract termination.

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NFT Update:  5 Recent Lawsuits Show a Glimpse into Future Legal Battles Involving NFTs 

LexBlog IP

Although none has reached a resolution, these private civil actions highlight various legal theories of liability that could arise when participating in the NFT market, including claims for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, breach of contract and violations of securities laws. Copyright Claims: Roc-A-Fella Records Inc.

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Monthly Wrap Up (November 11, 2022): Noteworthy Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Cases, Developments and Posts

LexBlog IP

delivered by a Michigan federal jury for the breach of its contract with Versata Software and the misappropriation of Versata’s trade secrets. million for Ford’s breach of contract. Maxwell Goss also has an earlier post this year on the same topic that was published by The Michigan Law Journal. The jury awarded $22.39