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Legal scholar Eric Goldman hosts Reddit AMA on web scraping law

Original: My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping

Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman has held a Reddit AMA (ask-me-anything) session covering the legal landscape of web scraping, publishing a write-up on his blog. The discussion touched on the rules governing automated data collection, a topic of ongoing litigation and debate among platforms, developers and researchers. The AMA write-up has drawn attention on tech forums, with readers weighing in on scraping's legal grey areas.

Why now: Web scraping remains a contested legal issue amid ongoing court battles between platforms and data collectors, making expert commentary timely.

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