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Re:LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without perm... by hashkb on Monday July 31, 2017 @10:19AM (#14892194)
What if I paint the bike artfully, put a copyright notice on it, and you sell the photos you took?
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Re:LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without perm... by Spivak on Monday July 31, 2017 @10:26AM (#14892263)
Standard IANAL.

That would be copyright infringement because photographing a copyrighted work is considered reproducing the work under the law.

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