[1]https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/ "Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. "The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest in a long-running legal battle brought by LinkedIn aimed at stopping a rival company from web scraping personal information from users’ public profiles. The case [2]reached the U.S. Supreme Court last year but was sent back to the Ninth Circuit for the original appeals court to re-review the case. "In its second ruling on Monday, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed its original decision and found that scraping data that is publicly accessible on the internet is not a violation of [3]the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, which governs what constitutes computer hacking under U.S. law. References 1. https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/ 2. https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/14/supreme-court-revives-linkedin-bid-to-protect-user-data-from-web-scrapers/ 3. https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/29/supreme-court-van-buren-hacking/