Scraping content that is publicly accessible on the internet is legal, a US appeals court reaffirms, ending a landmark case LinkedIn brought against a rival (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Scraping content that is publicly accessible on the internet is legal, a US appeals court reaffirms, ending a landmark case LinkedIn brought against a rival  —  Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling.

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