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A step towards legalising web scraping under French lawWeb scraping is a technique allowing a user to automatically extract the content of one or more websites, using a script or program, with the aim of transforming them to be used in another context. Web scraping has been developed with the deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning. However, this technique has the potential to infringe copyright. Under the impulse of European law, a new exception to copyright has been incorporated into French law, allowing this practice to be legal under certain conditions. This exception concerns “text and data mining”.Key words: web scraping, text and data mining, French Law, Directive (EU) 2019/790, copyright exception, artificial intelligence, machine learningAs new technologies develop rapidly, the law has to constantly catch up and change. The relatively new activity of web scraping has the potential to breach copyrights and other protections if not regulated carefully. The French law has now taken a step towards this, with an important exception for text and data mining.