James Longster of law firm Travers Smith looks at the legality of screen scraping, the automated process of copying/extracting (or 'scraping') the content of somebody else's website for use on another site
Scraping is a technique commonly used to gather valuable, seemingly proprietary data from websites and in some instances (for example price comparison websites) it is the cornerstone of an entire b...
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