[Consultation] Legal review of whether scraping data from another company's database is illegal.

Esa, which is planning to introduce a new used car transaction brokerage service, wanted to utilize information posted on its existing used car transaction brokerage platform through crawling. Therefore, Esa consulted with Law Firm Veat to review whether the act of another company crawling its established database is legitimate.

Law Firm Veat researched judgment precedents in similar cases to examine whether it infringed the rights of the database creators under the copyright law. Specifically, Law Firm Veat examined whether the Act on Prohibition of Unfair Competition and Protection of Trade Secrets, the Act on Promotion of Information and Communication Network Utilization and Protection of Information, and the offense of interfering with computer-related business activities applied to Esa’s crawling method. It provided a comprehensive opinion on whether the crawling method was illegal.

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If you need legal review related to crawling, please feel free to contact Law Firm Veat at any time.

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