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Open-source scraping libraries and the rights blind spot
Open-source libraries like Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, and Playwright are powerful and free, but they're rights-blind by design: they'll happily fetch a page that reserves every reuse right. The blind spot is usage, not access. Run a rights check per source so "we could fetch it" doesn't get mistaken for "we may use it."
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