“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
After a big court loss last week, Google has confirmed that it won’t give up its fight to block AI bots from scraping its search results. And Reddit is weirdly along for the ride. Curiously invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Google sued SerpApi last December. The search giant accused the web scraper of circumventing its anti-scraping technology and then selling content scraped from Google search results through an unauthorized “Google Search API” software service. According to
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A web scraper won a court case against a major search engine that tried to use copyright law to block automated data collection from its results. The search engine and a social media platform both filed lawsuits invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to stop scraping, arguing they needed to protect copyrighted content and their business relationships. A legal expert stated this use of the law is bizarre and not what the statute was intended for, though it reflects companies grasping for tools to combat the rise of artificial intelligence scraping over recent years. The court ruled that the search engine lacked legal standing to sue because it does not own the content in its search results and has not shown it represents the rights holders, dealing a significant blow to both companies' legal strategies.
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