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Re:Ask HN: Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my cont... by fimdomeio on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @08:31AM (#17808954)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my cont... by stef25 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @09:47AM (#17809483)
Correct, the database directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_Directive

Aka Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament

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Re:Ask HN: Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my cont... by codedokode on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @11:05AM (#17810214)
OP mentioned that they just buy the data from someone else and therefore OP is not a database rights holder.
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