July 2020

Does the First Amendment Include a Right to Scrape Photographs from Public Websites?

By Jeff Hermes

PUBLISHED IN: MLRC Bulletin 2020 Issue 1

TOPICS : Digital Privacy

The assertion that the First Amendment protects photo scraping has been met with skepticism from both privacy advocates and First Amendment lawyers.

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