A recent US court decision may be of help: <a href="https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/09/10/us-court-says-scraping-a-site-without-permission-isnt-illegal/" rel="nofollow">https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/09/10/us-court-says-scr...</a>
We need a legal precedent stating that programmatically accessing public data is not illegal nor considered copyright infringement. If a user can access the data directly (whether for free or by paying the original service and getting an account) then they should be allowed to delegate that task to software.