Ryanair 'screen scraping' dispute - liability to be determined first

Mr Justice Mark Sanfey made his ruling today in the airline's case against travel firm Vola Ro SRL and technology provider Ypsilon.

Today's case centres on the alleged use of Ryanair's website data such as price and flight times by Vola for its own commercial purpose, known as screen-scraping. File image

A dispute between Ryanair and a Romania-based online travel agency and a German internet travel technology firm over the practice of "screen scraping" must proceed on the basis of the High Court first determining issues of liability, a judge ruled.