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Web Scraping Legal Issues
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===Barriers to Access=== | ===Barriers to Access=== | ||
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| + | sign-in systems (see PACER) | ||
| + | tresspassing | ||
| + | terms of use | ||
===Barriers to Reuse=== | ===Barriers to Reuse=== | ||
| + | privacy laws | ||
| + | national security laws | ||
| + | IP laws / copyright | ||
===Public Interest Scraping Justifications=== | ===Public Interest Scraping Justifications=== | ||
Revision as of 15:36, November 18, 2012
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Introduction
The public interest case for web scraping is well understood among technologists and public advocates, but often poorly understood by everyone else. A developer setting up a scraper faces an often uncertain legal context, as laws and precedents can vary different countries, and the legal issues surrounding web scraping have been only vaguely formalized or decided by courts. This page seeks to gather relevant resources about the legal concerns surrounding scraping.
Scraping and its legal context should also be normalized a bit, since legal advice often doesn't take into account public interest motivations behind copying public sector information, and treats scraping as a sort of childish malevolence, even as huge businesses are more quietly built around web scraping. We would all be better off if smaller public interest actors had that same confidence. While this page isn't intended as legal advice, hopefully it can be a helpful first step.
Barriers to Access
with national examples, and news coverage
sign-in systems (see PACER) tresspassing terms of use
Barriers to Reuse
privacy laws national security laws IP laws / copyright
Public Interest Scraping Justifications
Other Relevant Resources
http://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/04/02/is-scraping-legal/ https://scraperwiki.com/docs/python/faq/#scraping_legality
