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California Court: Facebook Can Enforce No Scraping Prohibition in Terms of Service
Facebook aggressively monitors web scraping on its platforms. And they aren’t shy about sending out cease and desist letters when they believe someone is violating their terms of service. After the Ninth Circuit’s decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp. in 2019, however, there might have been some question whether a court (and, in … Read More
Cross-Post: 11th Circuit Reverses Legal Momentum for Permissiveness in Web Scraping
I recently wrote a post at Professor Eric Goldman’s Law and Technology Blog about an important web scraping case out of Florida from earlier this year. If you’re in the web-scraping business, you’ll definitely want to check that out here.
Are Bots Legal?
Bots are perfectly legal. Unless, of course, they’re programmed or designed to do illegal things. To paraphrase legal scholars Mark Lemley and Bryan Casey, well-drafted laws prohibit verbs, not nouns. There are millions of ways that you could code or program an automated system that generates almost no legal risk whatsoever. And there plenty of … Read More
A Comprehensive Legal Guide to Web Scraping in the US
TL;DR Web scraping is a complicated legal subject involving more than a dozen different laws. As such, it’s not possible to summarize all the legal issues associated with web scraping in just a few hundred words. That said, you can read the bolded sections here and the infographics in just a few minutes and learn … Read More
Remote Legal Practice, Eight Years Ahead of the Trend
In the past month, much of the world has shifted to remote work practices and so much has been disrupted. Here, at McCarthy Garber Law, we have continued to provide our legal services, uninterrupted, in the midst of this disruption to the outside world. And we’ll continue to do so. We’re able to do so, … Read More
Six Reasons to Outsource Your In-House Counsel Position
There are many different names for it: Outside counsel, part-time general counsel, flat-fee general counsel, outside GC, or even fractional general counsel. But the concept is the same. Instead of hiring a lawyer full time to attend to your business’s legal affairs, hiring a law firm on a part-time basis that specializes in providing outsourced … Read More
How (and How Not) to Pay with Equity
More and more, I’m hearing frustration from post-revenue or post-capital raise corporations that want to pay new hires in common stock. It seems like an obvious win-win: a new hire, with faith in the company’s success, gets paid in common stock for a future pay day, and the company can commit the cash it would … Read More