Law, disrupted
Law, disrupted
Law, disrupted
Private Rights in Public Data?
33 minutes Posted Apr 24, 2026 at 2:00 am.
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John is joined by Shon Morgan and Jack Baumann, both partners in Quinn Emanuel’s Los Angeles office. They discuss the growing legal tension surrounding the aggregation and commercialization of publicly available information. It focuses on when compiling public data into structured, searchable databases creates a protectable property interest, and when such activity exposes companies to legal risk. One recent series of cases involves disputes over whether entities that invest substantial resou...