Is it legal to sell databases fetched from WebScrapping?

It's a bit of a gray area and really depends on how you got the data and what kind of data it is. Generally, scraping publicly available information isn’t outright illegal, but selling it can cross legal or ethical lines, especially if the data is copyrighted, proprietary, or includes personal info like emails or phone numbers is not legal. Many sites also have terms of service explicitly banning scraping, and breaking those could get you into legal trouble. If the data is non-sensitive, public, and doesn’t violate any rules, you might be okay; so always double check the data and what you are going to do. Better safe than sorry!
 
Really depends on how you got the data. Public and not copyrighted and not related to people's emails, addresses, phone number, etc. then yea. Example: you got a listing of house prices, product details from Amazon, etc.
 
As a developer I say it is a gray area (I'm not a lawyer). I did a lot of scraping tasks for customers and they sold it in underground forums.
 
Tricky topic depends on what data you scraped and from where. Some stuff might fall into a legal gray area, so best to tread carefully and check local laws.
 
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