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James Grimmelmann

James Grimmelmann is a law professor at Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech. His research concerns internet law, digital copyright, content moderation and the regulation of software. He holds a computer science degree from Harvard and a law degree from Yale. Before law school, he worked as a programmer at Microsoft. He is a Creative Commons board member and the author of Internet Law: Cases and Problems.

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DI has documented statements by James Grimmelmann on Artificial Intelligence, Media, and Press Freedom. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by James Grimmelmann

James Grimmelmann

Role at the time: Professor of digital and information law

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Statement summary

Grimmelmann says he was quoted in Nieman Lab and calls Meta's new scraping terms 'absurdly broad'.

“Meta's new scraping terms really are absurdly broad.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)James Grimmelmann criticizes Meta scraping termsBluesky post 3mxwnt7wpbs24, 2:09 p.m. EDT
Why we used this label

He calls Meta's scraping terms 'absurdly broad'. This explicitly criticizes the terms under scrutiny.

Read statementMeta defends commercial scraping terms; Grimmelmann calls them overbroad

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