If you break Craigslist's rules — or help someone else do so — you agree to pay specific dollar amounts per violation, ranging from $1 for data harvesting to $3,000 per day for unauthorized content aggregation, and these amounts stack on top of any other legal remedies Craigslist pursues.
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The damages schedule is unusually specific and covers a wide range of common behaviors including viewing more than 1,000 pages in a day, sending unsolicited messages, or posting prohibited content, meaning ordinary users and businesses can incur significant financial liability for actions they may not recognize as violations.
Interpretive note: Whether California courts will treat all enumerated amounts as enforceable liquidated damages rather than unenforceable penalties is a legal question that depends on the facts of each violation and has not been uniformly resolved.
Users who exceed 1,000 page views in a day, send unsolicited communications, or post prohibited content may owe specific per-violation dollar amounts under these terms, with the $3,000-per-day rate for content aggregation posing the most significant financial exposure for developers or businesses that interact with the site programmatically.
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"You further agree that if you violate the TOU, or you encourage, support, benefit from, or induce others to do so, you will be jointly and severally liable to us for liquidated damages as follows for: (A) collecting/harvesting CL users' information, including personal or identifying information - $1 per violation; (B) publishing/misusing personal or identifying information of a third party in connection with your use of CL without that party's express written consent - $1,000 per violation; (C) misrepresenting your identity or affiliation to anyone in connection with your use of CL - $1,000 per violation; (D) posting or attempting to post Prohibited Content - $4 per violation; ... (K) aggregating, displaying, framing, copying, duplicating, reproducing, making derivative works from, distributing, licensing, selling, or exploiting CL content for any purpose without our express written consent - $3,000 for each day you engage in such violations; (L) requesting, viewing, or accessing more than 1,000 pages of CL in any 24-hour period - $0.25 per page during the 24 hour period after the first 1,000 pages; (M) bypassing or attempting to bypass our moderation efforts - $4 per violation. You agree that these amounts are (1) a reasonable estimate of our damages (as actual damages are often difficult to calculate), (2) not a penalty, and (3) not otherwise limiting on our ability to recover under any legal theory or claim.Excerpt from Craigslist's Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The liquidated damages clause engages California contract law on the enforceability of liquidated damages provisions, specifically whether each enumerated amount represents a reasonable pre-estimate of harm or an unenforceable penalty under California …
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The damages schedule is unusually specific and covers a wide range of common behaviors including viewing more than 1,000 pages in a day, sending unsolicited messages, or posting prohibited content, meaning ordinary users and businesses can incur significant financial liability for actions they may not recognize as violations.
Users who exceed 1,000 page views in a day, send unsolicited communications, or post prohibited content may owe specific per-violation dollar amounts under these terms, with the $3,000-per-day rate for content aggregation posing the most significant financial exposure for developers or businesses that interact with the site programmatically.
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