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Home > Forums > Programmers > Web Development > -Web site designers Forum

Legal question about proxied content

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spamjim (Instructor)
23 Feb 12 13:11
I would appreciate if someone could point me to US legal issues with unauthorized proxied content on a web site.

My company's web site is being accessed by another company. They obtain one of our live database-generated pages, trim out the data that they want, and then present it on their own server. Aside from copyright violation, is there some US law that prevents this?
spamjim (Instructor)
23 Feb 12 16:27
Answering the topic myself... bigsmile

Legal issues with this are explained on wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping

Just like any unauthorized copying, all you need is the simple grounds of copyright violation and the mess can be cleaned up easily... thanks to DMCA notices to the search engines and the web site's hosting provider.
MikeLewis (Programmer)
24 Feb 12 4:49
Hi Spamjim,

I hope you succeed in this. I've had similar problems, and have successfully used the DMCA to resolve them.

For anyone else who faces these issues, the following article explains the procedure:

Dealing with copyright infringements of your web page or blog.

Mike

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spamjim (Instructor)
24 Feb 12 9:00
Thanks. I've successfully used DMCA notices before on sites that copied our content. The thing that threw me was just that this new situation involved a live proxy to our content. I just needed to recognize that it was the same copyright issue.

I shut them down by modifying our page if their server IP was detected. So then they just scraped our database and hosted the whole thing on their site. Thankfully, the offending company, the search engines, and the hosting provider are all in the US and subject to DMCA.
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