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Summary of issue:

App in question partially designed to scrape recipes from the web.

App dev believes that their app does not violate DCMA and that other apps allow saving of web content locally.

Two sites feel that this violates their copyrights and have complained to Apple (not sure if DCMA is part of the complaint or not).

Apple has removed app until complaints are resolved. Complainants demand money to remove their complaint (one wants $10k).

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I also think it's worth noting that the content that they're complaining about is saved to private accounts. DropBox (Google Drive, etc., etc.) isn't responsible for stuff you save to your private accounts. Also, Apple hasn't said that the app violates any rules or laws. They just want the complaints resolved, whatever they may be.

Isn’t it DMCA for “Digital Millenium Copyright Act” (not DCMA)?

oops you are of course correct :-) DCMA is an acronym I used to need to use a lot. Must be muscle memory kicking in.

>partially designed to scrape recipes from the web

How is this different from the issue that was discussed recently where Google were scraping CelebrityNetWorth data?

I don't really know or have an opinion on that or this really.

I read it and gave a brief summary of the article so others might know if it was something they were interested in.

I did so as the title of the post did not really say anything about what a reader might find if they clicked on it.

Copy Me That only scrapes a recipe when the user clicks the share button on a wepage, like Evernote. It's not a crwler.

Glad to hear apple is protecting the iPhone users from malware like this.

I'm curious why you call it malware? You can visit a website, find a recipe you like, click a button, and the recipe gets copied to you recipe box. It's like Evernote, but is specific for recipes. Then you can edit the recipe, create meal plans, etc.

I didn't think that needed a /s

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