Canadian Court Finds Website Scraping Infringes Copyright 147
First time accepted submitter wrecked writes "A trial judgment from British Columbia, Canada, found that Zoocasa, a real estate search site operated by Rogers Communications, breached copyright by scraping real estate listings and photos from Century 21 Canada. The decision thoroughly reviews the issues of website scraping, Terms of Use, 'Shrink Wrap' and 'Click Wrap' Agreements, robots.txt files, and copyright implications of hyperlinking. For American readers used to multi-million dollar damages, the court here awarded $1,000 (one thousand dollars) for breach of the Century 21 website's Terms of Use, and statutory copyright damages totalling $32,000 ($250 per infringing real estate photo). More analysis at Michael Geist's blog, and the Globe & Mail."
Re:first comment! (Score:5, Funny)
He's probably using Firefox and it had to update to a new major version between each keystroke.
Re:first comment! (Score:2, Funny)
He's probably using Firefox and it had to update to a new major version between each keystroke.
I'm torn between moderating this as Funny or as Insightful.