TapTechNews, May 11th news, a US District Judge William Alsup recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's subsidiary X Company, stating that the scraping of public data is governed by copyright law, rather than the X platform’s terms.
TapTechNews learned from the report that X Company had earlier filed a lawsuit against BrightData for improperly accessing X’s systems and for scraping and selling data in violation of X’s terms and state laws, aiming to prevent the company from selling X data to academic institutions and enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies.
X Company argued that companies like BrightData could scrape public data from the X platform, but should pay fees for it; however, this claim was not supported by Judge Alsup.
Judge Alsup stated: The grounds for the lawsuit advanced by X Company were very vague, merely parroting the legal reasoning and conclusions from other cases without any supportive evidence.