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by mannyv 1423 days ago
Supremes have said that cookbooks and other fact collections don't necessarily have copyright protection. Recipes definitely don't.
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As a base law, that's helpful, but I'm wondering when it gets into cfaa territory. What if you violate the terms of service to scrape it? What if you have to implement tricks like IP rotating or useragent lying to get the data? What if you accidentally scrape some creative text which is copyrightable, embedded in the recipes and accidentally sell it?