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U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco on Thursday ruled that former Twitter company The court ruled that it was negligent.
William Alsup said the use of scraping tools is not inherently fraudulent and that giving social media companies free rein to decide how to use publicly available data “risks the potential for the creation of information monopolies that harm the public interest.” There is a gender,” he said.
The judge also said that X was not entitled to “de facto copyright ownership” of the copyrighted content that X's users made available to the public.
X's attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
“Bright Data's victory over X makes it clear to the world that public information on the web belongs to all of us. Any attempt to deny it will fail.”
William Alsup said X could seek an amended complaint seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for breach of contract, trespass and embezzlement. The San Francisco-based company sued Bright Data last July.
In January, another judge in San Francisco ruled that Bright Data did not violate Metaplatform's terms of service by scraping data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta closed his case against Bright Data a month later.
And in March, another judge in San Francisco dismissed X's lawsuit against the nonprofit Center to Combat Digital Hate, which published an article based on scraped data denouncing the rise in hate speech on the platform.
X appealed the decision, arguing that the article was scaring advertisers and costing them millions of dollars.
Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion. His other businesses include electric car company Tesla.
The case is X Corp v. Bright Data Ltd, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, No. 23-03698.
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