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This is pretty much what the DMCA and other copyright mechanisms were made for. Send your request to Google and have them delisted. https://support.google.com/legal/answer/3110420?hl=en
Google ReCaptcha is a pretty low friction way for (most) users to get your content. You can do this while serving your real content to Google.
For example I have never reached the end of their 'identify the road signs' challenge and if I encounter a site that uses them I'll just close the tab. Even Google Search.
Much better to use rotating series of questions related to your domain of data.
If you haven't already, try adding some "trap streets" to your data. Map makers occasionally include streets that don't exist, so if a competitors map includes it too, it's clear that the competitor copied it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street I did that with an online marketing dictionary I wrote years ago, some of the definitions included strange usage examples that contained the names of several of my frie…
A scraper could get around that by x-referencing the data with another source, if possible.
This is pretty much what the DMCA and other copyright mechanisms were made for. Send your request to Google and have them delisted. https://support.google.com/legal/answer/3110420?hl=en
Does anything stop the scraper from using DCMA on the original site?
(Note:I am not a lawyer.) If you're a US citizen, any content that you've created yourself is -automatically- copyrighted. (That's also true in all countries where Berne Convention standards apply.) See this link for further basics: https://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/intellectual-property/what... If they're scraping content you created, they have already broken the copyright law. (They may not realize that. Make sure…
Seems like a pretty hard line to draw.
(Note:I am not a lawyer.) If you're a US citizen, any content that you've created yourself is -automatically- copyrighted. (That's also true in all countries where Berne Convention standards apply.) See this link for further basics: https://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/intellectual-property/what... If they're scraping content you created, they have already broken the copyright law. (They may not realize that. Make sure…
Also not a lawyer buy If you're in europe I believe there's also something called database rights which gives some protection to people that gather data from different sources event if they are not content creator.
Aka Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament
Add sensible rate-limits (modelled after an average user's expected usage) and present a captcha after that. Make it per-IP. Sure, the crawler can change IPs, but I doubt they have unlimited addresses and eventually they will run out. Another option (if you can reliably detect the scraper) is to poison their data by sending them bad (but valid-looking) data.
(Note:I am not a lawyer.) If you're a US citizen, any content that you've created yourself is -automatically- copyrighted. (That's also true in all countries where Berne Convention standards apply.) See this link for further basics: https://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/intellectual-property/what... If they're scraping content you created, they have already broken the copyright law. (They may not realize that. Make sure…
What if I created my content by slightly altering other content? Like writing a news article from a Reuters press release, how much difference does there need to be? Seems like a pretty hard line to draw.
Yes, it is a hard line to draw. It is advisable that if your business is dependent on being on the right side of copyright issues that you simply stay well away from the line.
If you haven't already, try adding some "trap streets" to your data. Map makers occasionally include streets that don't exist, so if a competitors map includes it too, it's clear that the competitor copied it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street I did that with an online marketing dictionary I wrote years ago, some of the definitions included strange usage examples that contained the names of several of my frie…
This is the same as "poison pills" right? A directory website would include some fake entries so that if they pop up on other sites they could have only come from copying the original directory. A scraper could get around that by x-referencing the data with another source, if possible.