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  1. July 08, 2022

    The Biggest Copyright Rulings Of 2022: A Midyear Report

    In the first half of 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an applicant's lack of knowledge about the law can excuse innocent mistakes in a copyright registration, while the Ninth Circuit refused to reinstate a $2.8 million verdict against Katy Perry over her hit "Dark Horse." Here's a look at the most significant copyright decisions so far this year.

  2. April 18, 2022

    9th Circ. Finds Web Scraping Likely Not Covered By CFAA

    The Ninth Circuit on Monday reaffirmed its finding that scraping data in bulk from public LinkedIn profiles likely does not breach the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, in a decision it said was reinforced by a closely watched 2021 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

  3. October 18, 2021

    9th Circ. Judge Says LinkedIn Is Misreading Justices' Reversal

    A Ninth Circuit judge on Monday doubted LinkedIn's arguments that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent vacatur of a circuit panel's prior ruling suggests that LinkedIn can deny a data analytics startup access to public profiles, saying the justices' opinion is "irrelevant" to the panel's prior decision, which doesn't appear to conflict with recent precedent.

  4. September 20, 2019

    9th Circ. OK Of LinkedIn Data Scraping May Curb CFAA

    The Ninth Circuit has found that scraping information in bulk from public LinkedIn profiles likely does not breach the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, in a closely watched ruling that could rein in the reach of the oft-challenged anti-hacking law.

  5. September 09, 2019

    LinkedIn Can't Halt Startup's Info Scraping, 9th Circ. Says

    Professional networking site LinkedIn Corp. can't stop a data analytics startup from scraping publicly available member profiles for information, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday, affirming a lower court's preliminary injunction blocking LinkedIn from denying access to the company.

  6. March 15, 2018

    LinkedIn Tells 9th Circ. Startup's Bots Hurt Competition

    LinkedIn asked a Ninth Circuit panel to nix a judge's order allowing a startup company to keep using bots to scrape data from public profiles on its website, saying at oral arguments Thursday that the decision undermined the "very values of competition and innovation the district court thought it was protecting."

  7. December 13, 2017

    LinkedIn Pushes 9th Circ. To Protect User Data From Startup

    LinkedIn continued its push to have the Ninth Circuit eliminate an injunction that's allowed a startup company to continue scraping data from public profiles on its website, telling the appellate court it has every right to revoke another company's access if its policies are violated.

  8. November 28, 2017

    Internet Cos. Urge 9th Circ. To Dump LinkedIn Data Appeal

    A group of internet data companies and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on Monday threw their support behind a startup company's attempt in the Ninth Circuit to keep alive a preliminary injunction that lets it continue to scrape data from public profiles on LinkedIn.

  9. October 04, 2017

    LinkedIn Asks 9th Circ. To Stop Startup's Info Scraping

    LinkedIn Corp. asked the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to nix a lower court's preliminary injunction allowing a startup to scrape information from the networking site's public profiles, arguing antitrust laws don't require it to give another company a "free ride" on its work, and that doing so would violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.