- Mar 2025
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storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com
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Opinion and Order. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. v. Anna's Archive (2:24-cv-00144). District Court, S.D. Ohio.
Conclusion
The Court is sympathetic to OCLC's situation: a band of copyright scofflaws cloned WorldCat's hard-earned data, gave it away for free, and then ignored OCLC when it sued them in this Court. But mindful that bad facts sometimes make bad law, the Court requests that an Ohio court intervene before this Court makes any new state tort, contract, property, or criminal law.
The Court resolves to CERTIFY the novel Ohio-law issues identified above to the Supreme Court of Ohio. Plaintiff's counsel and Matienzo's counsel are ORDERED to propose an order containing all the information Ohio Supreme Court Practice Rule 9. 02 requires by April 11, 2025. The parties may file their proposed orders separately, or, if they so choose, they may file one joint proposed order. The Court will finalize a certification order afterward.
OCLC's motion for default judgment is DENIED without prejudice. See Lammert v. Auto-Owners (Mut. ) Ins., 286 F. Supp. 3d 919, 928-29 (M. D. Tenn. 2017) (adopting this same disposition). Because the answers to the certified questions may also determine Matienzo's motion to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), ECF No. 21, the Court DENIES without prejudice that motion too. See id. The Court invites the parties to reraise their motions after the certification proceeding. See id.
The Court also grants OCLC leave to amend its Complaint to correct any of the above-identified pleading deficiencies.
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- Jun 2024
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- Mar 2024
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storage.courtlistener.com storage.courtlistener.com
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By hacking WorldCat.org, scraping and harvesting OCLC’s valuable WorldCat
Complain equates “hacking” with “scraping and harvesting”
This is a matter of some debate—notably the recent LLM web scraping cases.
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www.arnoldventures.org www.arnoldventures.org
- Jul 2018
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webcitation.org webcitation.orgWebCite1
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Archiving service with an emphasis on scholarly publishing.
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ageofshitlords.com ageofshitlords.com
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Archiving pages that block it.
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- Apr 2018
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"The problem: the automated web browsing tools they want to use (commonly called “web scrapers”) are prohibited by the targeted websites’ terms of service, and the CFAA has been interpreted by some courts as making violations of terms of service a crime."
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Good news for anyone who uses the Internet as a source of information: A district court in Washington, D.C. has ruled that using automated tools to access publicly available information on the open web is not a computer crime
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www.seleniumhq.org www.seleniumhq.org
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petewarden.com petewarden.com
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Pingback: Legality of Extracting Publicly Available User-Generated Content – PromptCloud Pingback: How to Scrape Facebook Posts for Free Content Ideas Pingback: Facebook data harvesting—what you need to know (From Phys.org) – Peter Schwartz
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This is an extremely important case to remember. It has implications for all Fb users who want to own their past.
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github.com github.com
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warcreate.com warcreate.com
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www.cs.odu.edu www.cs.odu.edu
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WAIL in Electron,
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benbernardblog.com benbernardblog.com
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Need proof? In Linkedin v. Doe Defendants, Linkedin is suing between 1-100 people who anonymously scraped their website. And for what reasons are they suing those people? Let's see: Violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Violation of California Penal Code. Violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Breach of contract. Trespass. Misappropriation.
Linkedin lawsuit -- terrifying
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www.octoparse.com www.octoparse.com
- Mar 2018
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scrapinghub.com scrapinghub.com
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Turn websites into structured data.
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