So, below is the answer from CG, [USER=8479]@Alexander Lau[/USER]. Just in case we are going to look into something like this anyway - https://blog.jscrambler.com/protect-your-site-against-web-scraping/
It is important to kinda weigh the effort required here and to whether or not this is a hill to die on. I recall plenty of 3rd party vehicle value vendors with claims that they scrape the classifieds multiple times during the day, which is interesting since we have already established that they have the legal language preventing that very thing. There must not be anyone pursuing this type of litigation because ultimately it really may not be hurting anyone in the way it may within other industries?
Yes, the website would need an “Ownership and Intellectual Property” statement in a Terms Of Use section. This would prevent a 3rd party from gathering data from their website.
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Dealer Account Executive
CarGurus
From: Dan Sayer <dans@andersonautogroup.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 10:02 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Average Price Paid
(EXTERNAL)
There is a big hubbub in my dealer forums about the legality of 3rd parties scraping dealer sites, that don't have an agreement with the party, for their listing and inventory data. If a dealer has a legal Terms of Use disclaimer on their site, like CarGurus does, would that prevent a 3rd party from gathering data from a site?
Dan Sayer | VP of Digital
Anderson Auto Group
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