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Posted in BGH, CJEU, data protection, data scraping, database right, unfair comptetition

BGH: Screen Scraping Does Not Constitute Unfair Competition
German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) is in a new case on meta search engines and screen scraping — Flugvermittlung im Internet, I ZR 224/12 — again proving its superior expertise and better sense of the real world compared to the Court of Justice of the EU. In a case involving notorious litigant Ryaniar who sued
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Posted in CJEU, data scraping, database right, search engines

Meta Search Engines Likely to Infringe Database Right by Data Scraping
The Christmas time drowned out publication of a particularly interesting CJEU decision – Innoweb C‑202/12 – dealing with the EU-specific database right and its applicability to meta search engines. The preliminary reference before the CJEU came from a Dutch proceedings of Wegener group against Innoweb BV and its operation of a dedicated car meta search
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