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You always have a copyright, even if you don't say so on the page.

They could of course add a robots.txt and stop nicely behaved scrapers that way, but to stop all scraping is impossible. There's always a way. The best you can hope for is to make it so hard, that they don't bother creating a custom made scraper.




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