US Ninth Circuit Court Reaffirms Ruling: Web Scraping is Legal
April 18, 2022: The US Ninth Circuit Court reaffirmed its original decision in HiQ Labs, Inc v LinkedIn Corp in an interim ruling on Monday April
Legality of web data collection – some useful links
Genius media group Inc. v. Google LLC and Lyricfind
August 10th, 2020: Court dismisses Genius Media Group’s lawsuit against Google and LyricFind. In the lawsuit, Genius Media Group claimed Google and LyricFind misappropriated lyric transcriptions from the company’s site. The lawsuit was dismissed on the grounds that Genius does not own the rights to the original lyrics displayed and therefore has no standing to sue either Google or LyricFind.
HiQ Labs, Inc v LinkedIn Corp
September 9th, 2019: In an unprecedented ruling, a court has confirmed that collecting publicly available information from LinkedIn, is in fact, irrefutably legal.
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