[akrymski]

Well, there is precedence: Google can scrape the web, but you can't scrape Google. Laws around compiled databases exist for a reason: you can't just copy the phone book if effort has gone into compiling it, it is itself copyrightable

[philipkglass]

That varies by jurisdiction. In the United States, copying the phone book (or otherwise copying facts from someone else's collection) has been legal since 1991:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc._v._Ru....

[p_l]

And funnily enough, most laws about compiled databases might not apply, for one.

And then there's new updates related to AI that fully take out LLMs from protection.

[anigbrowl]

This is the opposite of legal reality, at least as far as the US is concerned.