Ryanair can sue over ‘screen scraping’ Supreme Court rules

Ryanair is entitled to sue in this jurisdiction over alleged “screen-scraping” of its booking website by two travel agencies based in Germany and England, the Supreme Court has ruled.

Screen-scraping, Ryanair said, involves the taking of information from its website and providing it to the travel agencies’ customers for a fee.

The airline says this is a breach of its intellectual property rights. It is also a breach of the terms of use of its website which has a condition that the user is bound by the law of this country in any dispute, it says.