> Amazon’s ASIN database may have protection in Europe (where they unwisely adopted a “database right” that is an adjunct to copyright), but in the USA, factual collections of identifiers are not eligible for copyright.
I didn't know about this practice in EU, this seems to be a setup made for abuse
It's only to protect from mass-scraping. In practice it's easily circumventeable for legitimate purposes, as mentioned in the example: "However, the reuse or the extraction of only one case law file or insubstantial parts of case law is freely available."
The extension mentioned in the original post, for example, would not infringe it.
I didn't know about this practice in EU, this seems to be a setup made for abuse
https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/running-business/intel...