Digital news publishers in the U.S. have raised “significant legal concerns” over the scraping of their content by Common Crawl Foundation.
Trade body Digital Content Next (DCN), which represents many major U.S. publishers, has sent a cease and desist letter via its lawyer to the web archive creator.
They called on Common Crawl to immediately stop “scraping, retaining, or sharing copyrighted, paywalled, subscriber-only, or otherwise protected content from DCN member companies in its datasets.”
They also requested that publisher content already in the Common Crawl datasets is removed.
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