Given the staggering explosion in the amount of available information and the rise in technically creative ways to search and gather information from the World Wide Web, in-house counsel must be prepared to advise their companies on the legal considerations implicated by Web scraping.
Web scraping is an automated technique for collecting large amounts of information from the Web. Rather than manually visiting and copying information from a Web page, Web scraping uses software tools to collect data from any number of Web pages. It then transforms the data for easier use in a database, spreadsheet or some other data repository. Though Web scraping is designed to mimic human efforts to collect information, it can collect in seconds what otherwise would take days, weeks, or even months to collect by hand.
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