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Does anything stop the scraper from using DCMA on the original site?
Anything receiving 5k visits a month, is likely crawled at least once a day unless it's told not to. In this case, Google could check crawls and determine the original source of content between the two competitors.
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…
Copyright protects only creative works, not any information as I understand.
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?
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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.
Correct, the database directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_Directive Aka Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament
Maybe even automate it: one lots of requests start coming from the same source, a sign that somebody is scraping your site, start messing with the data you send them in later requests.
This all assuming there's no legal objection to providing false data on this particular topic. There might be, depending on what it's about.
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He can also go after them with this. He can write them to take it down. If they don’t, go to the host and have them take the site down.
"Excuse me, could you put down my TV?"
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…
Copyright protects only creative works, not any information as I understand.
And maps are nothing more than a collection of facts. As are recipes. You can take the recipes in a cookbook, write them down, and disseminate them how you choose and no one could say boo. Which is why Coca-Cola guards its recipe carefully. Once it is known, they can't do anything about it. You can't copyright "a lot of sugar, carbonated water, caramel coloring, mix".
But you also can't just photocopy a map and sell it as your own. Presentation falls under copyright. The look of the map is a distinct piece of art that has copyright protections. The combination of colors, fonts, line thickness, placement of labels, etc, are all things you can't reproduce.
But the information that Bob Street crosses Bill and Jill streets at these points, that's just facts.
(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.
All laws result in tricky distinctions, and that's what case law is for.