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IP Attorney Randy McCarthy for Techstrong.ai - Reddit Sues Anthropic for Scraping Content
June 2025
Techstrong.ai
“You can see from the complaint that Reddit has put up a ‘do not scrape’ sign in essence, but none of the existing laws are really a good fit — it cannot be said unequivocally that it is illegal (either from a contractual or tortious vantage point) to do this,” intellectual property attorney Randy McCarthy said in an email. “Perhaps this signals that, if and when Congress takes up legislation to address the fair use aspects of training AI systems, that it will incorporate amendments to the federal unfair competition act to deal with whether it is unfair competition to scrape data from a commercial competitor.”
