Law Practice
Dec. 13, 2012
Litigators and in-house counsel: get to know CFAA civil actions, Part 1
Protecting a client's digital fortress has never been more difficult, and technology and Internet companies must consider the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as both a sword and a shield.
Marc Lewis
Partner
Lewis & Llewellyn LLP
505 Montgomery St Ste 1300
San Francisco , CA 94111
Marcis an experienced civil trial lawyer. Unlike most litigators, Marc tries cases. Marc has first chaired numerous civil jury trials to verdict - the most recent of which spanned eight weeks, involved more than forty witnesses, and resulted in a favorable settlement post-verdict.
Protecting a client's digital fortress has never been more difficult. "Content scraping," the process of caching massive quantities of webpages and images to effectively "copy" an entire website, provides a unique and immediate threat to Internet and technology companies. But protecting against such scraping is a difficult proposition, especially in the absence of a contractual provision prohibiting scraping. Without a contract, the most effective legal protections against scraping exist...
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