Craigslist Rights Grab
On Monday a federal district court in California made a remarkable ruling in Craigslist Inc. v. 3Taps Inc., et al. In the case, Craigslist sues three companies for allegedly harvesting and reproducing the contents of Craigslist’s website. In sum, as alleged, these companies aggregate and republish Craigslist ads after “scraping” them off the Craigslist site. They then offer users the ability to search and access Craigslist postings in ways that Craigslist itself does not allo