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Their info boxes are all scraped from other sites, would they still be able to legally scrape sites and display them like that without giving any links to actually follow?


the data that google shows from websites is provided by websites as structured markup, websites started providing this with the expectation that it would provide better ranking. Nowadays, however, google could probably just render the same thing thorugh nlp without any additional hints from the sourced pages



Not all of it is structured. I've seen numerous examples where the structure is inferred from HTML markup, i.e. not so structured.

I get your point about structured data laying it out on a plate, so to speak.




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