alt Hacker NewsWell, 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
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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.
anigbrowl • last Sunday at 1:40 AM
This is the opposite of legal reality, at least as far as the US is concerned.
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....