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Judge Throws Out Craigslist Copyright Lawsuit, But It Can Still Sue Over Data

by devinfoley on 5/1/13, 12:50 AM with 13 comments

• by rcfox on 5/1/13, 2:15 AM

  Does anyone know what "gaining unauthorized access to data on its Web site" means in this case?

  If you're posting links to the content on your site (I roll my eyes at this condition, but there's the AT&T case, so I added it), and there's no login screen in front of the data, is there any expectation of privacy for the data?

• by eksith on 5/1/13, 2:13 AM

  Craigslist's advantage is that it's one of the most well known; not that it came up with the listings idea by itself (papers have had these ads for ages). Their lawsuit angle was that this was a question of "method" which isn't unique.

  Aggregation, on the other hand, is a different matter entirely since that's essentially scraping the listings data.

• by timtamboy63 on 5/1/13, 5:37 AM

  Just start charging for an API and everyone's happy