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Also, what's the enforceability of a TOS that disallows actions that would otherwise be legal?

There are 4 standard forms of IP protection that would prevent people from using your work: copyright, trademark, patents, and trade secrets. The data on Craigslist isn't protected by any of these, so are they still able to make it illegal to use that data just because they said so?

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