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The SEC, Web Scraping, and Material Non-Public Information
Web scraping has recently come under scrutiny from regulatory agencies that investigate securities laws. Increasingly, investment firms have been using web scraping as an alternative form of data collection. To bolster more traditional data sets like SEC filings and financial statements, investment firms have been going directly to websites and online resources to get information … Read More
About that Crazy Delaware Franchise Tax Bill…
Note: The numbers relating to Delaware’s tax rates below are accurate at the time this article was drafted. Delaware may change its charges; you should confirm those numbers at the time of filing. Delaware’s annual tax on corporations, which it calls a franchise tax, is due March 1st each year. There are two methods of … Read More
California Court: Facebook Can Enforce No Scraping Prohibition in Terms of Service in Password-Protected Section of Site
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
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