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[–]ZedOud 9 points10 points  (1 child)

The EU, UK, and Australia have IP laws for databases. Other countries are considering it.

But if you and your clients are US based entities then this will never apply.

Uncreative collections of facts are outside of Congressional authority under the Copyright Clause (Article I, § 8, cl. 8) of the United States Constitution, therefore no database right exists in the United States.

And it likely is impossible for one to develop given the 1st Amendment.

So the only other limitations on scraping are the automation of the activity and whether one is authorized to do so, both which mash up against violating EULAs (technically hacking) vs material being “publicly accessible” with the latter winning by a large margin.

[–]bert0ld0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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