[bena]

Scraping is legal. Always has been, always will be. Mainly because there's some fuzz around the edges of the definition. Is a web browser a scraper? It does a lot of the same things.

IIRC LinkedIn/Microsoft was trying to sue a company based on Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violations, claiming they were accessing information they were not allowed to. Courts ruled that that was bullshit. You can't put up a website and say "you can only look at this with your eyes". Recently-ish, they were found to be in violation of the User Agreement.

So as long as you don't have a user account with the site in question or the site does not have a User Agreement prohibiting scraping, you're golden.

The problem isn't the scraping anyway, it's the reproduction of the work. In that case, it really does matter how you acquired the material and what rights you have with regards use of that material.