| ▲ | akrymski 7 hours ago | |
Well, there is precedence: Google can scrape the web, but you can't scrape Google. Laws around compiled databases exist for a reason: you can't just copy the phone book if effort has gone into compiling it, it is itself copyrightable | ||
| ▲ | philipkglass 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
That varies by jurisdiction. In the United States, copying the phone book (or otherwise copying facts from someone else's collection) has been legal since 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc._v._Ru.... | ||
| ▲ | anigbrowl 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
This is the opposite of legal reality, at least as far as the US is concerned. | ||
| ▲ | p_l 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
And funnily enough, most laws about compiled databases might not apply, for one. And then there's new updates related to AI that fully take out LLMs from protection. | ||