The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Compulife: Datascraping and Trade Secret Law" on September 8, 2020 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm (ET). David Conrad of Fish & Richardson, PC; Kenneth Corsello of IBM; and James Pooley of James Pooley, PLC will discuss Compulife v. Newman, an Eleventh Circuit decision that appears to offer publishers of data a novel way to pursue website scrapers by using trade secret law, and thus is also an important possible threat to companies that depend on others' data as fodder for their artificial intelligence solutions. The panel will discuss:
• Whether this case offers website publishers a new arrow in the quiver to combat unwanted website scrapers beyond "typical" claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and a contract claim for breach of the underlying terms of service.
• Other important cases involving datascraping including Van Buren v. U.S. (recently granted certoriari before the U.S. Supreme Court), HiQ v. LinkedIn (cert petition pending), and Digidrill v. Petrolink (5th Circ., July 2020).
The registration fee for the webinar is $135 (IPO member) or $150 (non-member) (government and academic rates are available upon request). Those interested in registering for the webinar can do so here.
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