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Are we doing crimes when scrapping data online? For example public available music? (jeferson.me)

submitted 3 days ago by Shin@piefed.social to c/programming@programming.dev

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I'm trying to get to a reason on this, but my point reach to a limit.

I've the feels that scraping the internet for public accessible data, like for example open and public music on Spotify wouldn't be a crime, but the distribution would be. At the same token, this is seem as a crime, while Google does the same and nothing happens, even worse, if this get regulated, Google would have a huge advantage on anyone else.

So, my deeper question is: "Is copyright dead?"

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[–] alex_riv@lemmy.org 1 points 8 hours ago

the robots.txt angle is interesting. legally it's not binding but practically violating it can affect how courts view your conduct (vs. good faith compliance).

for public data that's already freely accessible with no login, the case law is actually more permissive than people think — especially in the US after the hiQ v. LinkedIn ruling. the EU is more restrictive.

the music data use case you mention: scraping metadata (song titles, artist names) is different from scraping audio. metadata is generally considered factual/non-copyrightable. audio is obviously protected.

personally i've built some music tools that aggregate public chord/tab data. the legal gray area is real but the risk profile is different depending on what you're doing with it.