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by stefan_ 1447 days ago
All that case says is "scraping is not a violation of the CFAA". But of course the scraped data still exists in legal limbo; maybe you can compute derived information from it, but the moment a scraper reproduces it there is all of copyright law waiting for them.
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In that case, the user owns the copyright, not the company, as the user is the author. So it would be up to them to take legal action if deemed necessary.