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Digital Millennium Copyright Act Unauthorized Access

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Data Scraping Deemed Legal in Certain Circumstances

After two decisions by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, data scraping is deemed legal if the information is publicly accessible on the internet. ...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Taking Cue from the Supreme Court’s Van Buren Decision, Ninth Circuit Releases New Opinion Holding Scraping of Publicly Available...

On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit earlier this week again affirmed the lower court’s order preliminarily enjoining LinkedIn Corp. (“LinkedIn”) from blocking data analytics company hiQ Labs, Inc.’s...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Ticketmaster Reaches Settlement with Ticket Broker over Unauthorized Use of Automated Bots

In early July, Ticketmaster reached a favorable settlement in its action against a ticket broker that was alleged to have used automated bots to purchase tickets in bulk, thus ending a dispute that produced notable court...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

CFAA “Unauthorized Access” Web Scraping Claim against Ticket Broker Dismissed Because Revocation of Access Not Expressed in Cease...

A California district court issued an important opinion in a dispute between a ticket sales platform and a ticket broker that employed automated bots to purchase tickets in bulk. (Ticketmaster L.L.C. v. Prestige...more

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