District Judge Dismisses Bright Data, X Copyright Case
Following a joint stipulation of voluntary dismissal Friday from data scraper Bright Data and social media platform X, U.S. District Court for Northern California Judge William Alsup ordered the copyright case dismissed on Tuesday.
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In Friday's stipulation, the parties said the case should be dismissed with prejudice because it "has been compromised and settled." A previous court document, filed on June 21, said that "the parties reached a settlement in principle to resolve all claims and counterclaims in this action." X and Bright Data said they "are now working diligently to finalize the settlement with the goal of promptly filing a joint stipulation of dismissal," and asked for a 10-day stay of all deadlines in the case. Alsup granted the stay the same day.
The 2023 case, X Corp v. Bright Data, centered on allegations from X that Bright Data extracted and copied public data from it and sold tools that help others do the same (see 2501130064). The data scraper fired back with counterclaims, including alleging the social media platform’s attempts to remove the public's right to access and scrape public portions of the web are anticompetitive conduct (see 2502040067).
In April, the district court dismissed some of the claims and counterclaims in case 23-03698, but allowed it to continue (see 2504180040).