X Says It Submitted Evidence in Copyright Case; Tells Court Opponent Has Not
X asked the court to deny Bright Data's request to turn over additional evidence as part of a copyright case. In a letter Monday, X claimed it has provided "voluminous information," and Bright, a data scraper, is attempting to distract and stall the court despite withholding its scraping activity logs.
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X's counsel, in the letter, said, "Simply put, Bright Data’s scraping data and X’s platform data are not remotely equivalent. Bright Data should produce its full scraping logs – not just a cherrypicked sample, as detailed in X’s concurrently filed motion. Meanwhile, X is producing from its Jira database every ticketed incident of server harm related to scraping or unauthorized access."
In case 23-03698, X Corp v. Bright Data, the social media platform alleges Bright Data extracted and copied public data from it and sells tools that help others do the same (see 2501130064). X pressed the court to dismiss the counterclaims brought by the data scraper twice (see 2502110067), which Bright Data opposed on Feb. 4 (see 2502040067). The U.S. District Court for Northern California on April 10 ordered X to submit server logs and other evidence by Monday at noon PST after Bright Data filed a letter to the court April 9, asking it to intervene (see 2504110053).