Regulating Website Access for Automated Means Such as Search Bots and Agents: Property or Contract?

This paper deals with legal issues concerning website access for software agents, notably the question how terms and conditions on a website can be presented in such a way that software agents and other automated programs exploring the internet can adhere to them. We discuss the technology behind requesting website content, and indicate for what reasons website owners regulate access to their web sites.

Source: Contemporary Issues in Law (via SSRN and and DocuTicker)

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