July 08, 2022
In the first half of 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an applicant's lack of knowledge about the law can excuse innocent mistakes in a copyright registration, while the Ninth Circuit refused to reinstate a $2.8 million verdict against Katy Perry over her hit "Dark Horse." Here's a look at the most significant copyright decisions so far this year.
April 18, 2022
The Ninth Circuit on Monday reaffirmed its finding that scraping data in bulk from public LinkedIn profiles likely does not breach the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, in a decision it said was reinforced by a closely watched 2021 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
October 18, 2021
A Ninth Circuit judge on Monday doubted LinkedIn's arguments that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent vacatur of a circuit panel's prior ruling suggests that LinkedIn can deny a data analytics startup access to public profiles, saying the justices' opinion is "irrelevant" to the panel's prior decision, which doesn't appear to conflict with recent precedent.
September 20, 2019
The Ninth Circuit has found that scraping information in bulk from public LinkedIn profiles likely does not breach the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, in a closely watched ruling that could rein in the reach of the oft-challenged anti-hacking law.
September 09, 2019
Professional networking site LinkedIn Corp. can't stop a data analytics startup from scraping publicly available member profiles for information, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday, affirming a lower court's preliminary injunction blocking LinkedIn from denying access to the company.
March 15, 2018
LinkedIn asked a Ninth Circuit panel to nix a judge's order allowing a startup company to keep using bots to scrape data from public profiles on its website, saying at oral arguments Thursday that the decision undermined the "very values of competition and innovation the district court thought it was protecting."
December 13, 2017
LinkedIn continued its push to have the Ninth Circuit eliminate an injunction that's allowed a startup company to continue scraping data from public profiles on its website, telling the appellate court it has every right to revoke another company's access if its policies are violated.
November 28, 2017
A group of internet data companies and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on Monday threw their support behind a startup company's attempt in the Ninth Circuit to keep alive a preliminary injunction that lets it continue to scrape data from public profiles on LinkedIn.
October 04, 2017
LinkedIn Corp. asked the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to nix a lower court's preliminary injunction allowing a startup to scrape information from the networking site's public profiles, arguing antitrust laws don't require it to give another company a "free ride" on its work, and that doing so would violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.