Crawls the web, in the United Kingdom

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, c. 48, ss. 22, 23 and 27 · Read the law's page

• Do not import into the United Kingdom, otherwise than for your private and domestic use, an article that you know or have reason to believe is an infringing copy of a copyright work, unless the copyright owner has licensed it.
• Do not, without the copyright owner's licence, possess in the course of a business, sell or let for hire, offer or expose for sale or hire, exhibit in public or distribute in the course of a business, or distribute otherwise than in the course of a business to such an extent as to affect the owner prejudicially, an article that you know or have reason to believe is an infringing copy of the work.
• An article is an infringing copy if its making infringed the copyright in the work, or if it has been or is proposed to be imported into the United Kingdom and making it here would have infringed the copyright or breached an exclusive licence agreement; the importing limb does not reach an article put into circulation in the EEA by or with the copyright owner's consent.
• A copy that section 29A(3) treats as an infringing copy, the provision for copies made for text and data analysis for non-commercial research, is an infringing copy for the purposes of these sections.

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, ss. 3, 16 and 21 · Read the law's page

• Get the copyright owner's licence before you copy a work, issue copies of it to the public, rent or lend it to the public, perform, show or play it in public, communicate it to the public, or make an adaptation of it (s. 16(1)).
• Do not do, or authorise another to do, any of those acts without the licence of the copyright owner: a person who does so infringes the copyright (s. 16(2)).
• Treat copying or otherwise dealing with a substantial part of a work, directly or indirectly, as dealing with the work, whether or not any intervening act itself infringes copyright (s. 16(3)).
• Treat a computer program, and preparatory design material for one, as a literary work in which copyright subsists once it is recorded, in writing or otherwise (s. 3(1) and (2)).
• Treat an arrangement or altered version of a computer program, or a translation of it, including a version converted into or out of a computer language or code or into a different one, as an adaptation, and making one as an act restricted by the copyright (s. 21(1), (3)(ab) and (4)).
• Check the acts permitted in relation to copyright works in Chapter III and the copyright licensing provisions in Chapter VII, to which the restrictions are subject (s. 16(4)).

Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997, SI 1997/3032, regs. 12, 13, 16 and 17 · Read the law's page

• Do not extract or re-utilise all or a substantial part of the contents of a UK database protected by database right without the maker's consent.
• Repeated and systematic extraction or re-utilisation of only small, insubstantial parts of a database can itself amount to extracting a substantial part, so taking a protected database in small automated pieces over time does not avoid this right.

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, c. 48, ss. 296ZA to 296ZF · Read the law's page

• Do not do anything that circumvents an effective technological measure, such as encryption, scrambling or another access control or protection process, or a copy control mechanism, applied to a copyright work other than a computer program, if you know or have reasonable grounds to know that you are circumventing it.
• Do not manufacture for sale or hire, import otherwise than for private and domestic use, or in the course of a business sell, let for hire, offer, advertise, possess or distribute a device, product or component primarily designed, produced or adapted to enable or facilitate the circumvention of effective technological measures, and do not provide, promote, advertise or market a service whose purpose is to enable or facilitate it.

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, c. 48, s. 29A · Read the law's page

• Obtain a licence or the rights holder's consent before crawling third-party websites to collect data for commercial AI model training, since the non-commercial-research text-and-data-mining exception does not cover commercial use.
• Do not transfer a copy made under the non-commercial-research exception to anyone else, or use it for any purpose beyond that research, without the copyright owner's authorisation.

Consumer Rights Act 2015, c. 15, s. 46 · Read the law's page

• This binds a trader that supplies digital content to a consumer under a contract; a trader acts for purposes relating to its trade, business, craft or profession, and a consumer is an individual acting wholly or mainly outside them (sections 2(2), 2(3) and 46(1)).
• If your digital content damages the consumer's device or other digital content, and the damage would not have occurred had you exercised reasonable care and skill, repair the damage within a reasonable time and without significant inconvenience to the consumer, bearing the necessary costs, or compensate the consumer with an appropriate payment (section 46(1) to (3)).
• Pay any compensation without undue delay and within 14 days of agreeing that the consumer is entitled to it, and charge the consumer no fee for the payment (section 46(5) and (6)).

Automated Online Software (Access and Transparency) Bill, session 2026-27 (UK Parliament bill 4170) · Read the law's page

• The bill makes provision about the registration of operators of specified automated online software, and about duties on those operators with regard to the functions of that software, including in relation to accessing online material published by persons other than the operator.

Computer Misuse Act 1990, c. 18, ss. 1 and 17(5), (8) · Read the law's page

• Do not cause a computer to perform a function intended to secure access to a program or data, knowing that access is unauthorised because you are not entitled to control that kind of access and do not have the consent of someone who is.