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This clause directly restricts researchers, journalists, developers, and businesses from collecting public data from X without a formal agreement, which has significant implications for academic research, journalism, and competitive intelligence.
Interpretive note: The enforceability of anti-scraping clauses against publicly available data is contested in US courts following Van Buren v. United States and hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn; outcomes depend on jurisdiction and whether data is genuinely publicly accessible.
The terms authorize X to suspend or terminate accounts not only for policy violations but also for prolonged inactivity, risk of legal exposure, or commercial inviability, without specifying defined thresholds for these categories. The content license granted to X is described as broad and royalty-free, covering distribution, reproduction, modification, and sublicensing of user-posted content to third parties worldwide. You can review your account activity settings and data download options via X's Settings menu at x.com/settings to export your content before any potential account action.
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"crawling" or "scraping", whether by automated, manual, or other non-automated means, or otherwise using any automated means (including, without limitation, "bots," "scrapers," and "spiders"), to view, access or collect information or content from the Services, or using any part of the Services or c...
You may not use automated tools to scrape, crawl, or extract data or content from Runway's platform, or attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise derive the source code or underlying models of Runway's tools and services.
Customer will not, and will not permit any other person (including any End User) to: ... (d) attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code or underlying components (e.g., algorithms, weights, or systems) of the Mistral AI Products, including using the Outpu...
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"You may not access the Services in any way other than through the currently available, published interfaces that we provide. For example, this means that you cannot scrape the Services without X's express written permission, try to work around any technical limitations we impose, or otherwise attempt to disrupt the operation of the Services.— Excerpt from X's X Terms of Service
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This clause directly restricts researchers, journalists, developers, and businesses from collecting public data from X without a formal agreement, which has significant implications for academic research, journalism, and competitive intelligence.
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