On August 14, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction that prohibits LinkedIn from implementing legal or technological restrictions on hiQ's access, copying, and...more
9/5/2017
/ Cease and Desist ,
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Collection ,
Free Speech ,
LinkedIn ,
Predictive Analytics ,
Preemption ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Public Information ,
Social Networks ,
Unauthorized Access ,
Unfair Competition Law (UCL) ,
Web Scraping
Despite the prevalence of open source software and its ubiquitous use in the software industry, there has been little litigation in the United States analyzing and interpreting the terms of open source licenses. On April 25,...more