Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting and organizing data from websites, allowing organizations to gather large amounts of information from the web. This information allows ...

Scraping a public website without the approval of the website's owner isn't a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an appeals court ruled on Monday. The ruling comes in a legal battle that ...

What just happened? A US appeals court has reaffirmed an earlier ruling that states companies or individuals who scrape publicly accessible data from the web aren't breaking the law. The result ...

In the age of generative AI, when chatbots can provide detailed answers to questions based on content pulled from the internet, the line between fair use and plagiarism, and between routine web ...

Reddit has sued Perplexity AI and three other entities for allegedly scraping user comments for commercial gain Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and ...

Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of ...