Court tosses Google's DMCA suit against scraper SerpApi
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Court tosses Google's DMCA suit against scraper SerpApi
Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. This week a court told Google it cannot stop others from scraping Google. On 20 July, a federal judge dismissed Google’s lawsuit against SerpApi. The firm scrapes Google search results and resells them as structured data. Google had […] This story continues at The Next Web
Google Lost Its Scraping Case – Now You Have To Pick A Side On The Open Web
Google's DMCA case against scraper SerpApi collapsed because SearchGuard protects ad revenue, not copyright. The same reasoning weakens every site's anti-bot defense against AI crawlers. The post Google Lost Its Scraping Case – Now You Have To Pick A Side On The Open Web appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google is continuing its fight to block artificial intelligence (AI) bots and so-called web scraping tools from accessing Google search results after a major and unexpected court defeat. Google sued SerpApi, alleging that SerpApi circumvents Google’s anti-scraping technology and sells unauthorized content. SerpApi argues that Google and Reddit are trying to fence off the internet by demanding control over the content they […]
Court: Google doesn't own the copyrights to its search results
Earlier this year, an interesting lawsuit was launched, where search engine giant Google sued small company called SerpApi. SerpApi is a company that provides websites with information on how well they rank in Google's search results for various keywords - and how websites' competitors appear in the search results for each search term. Google accused SerpApi of unauthorized collection of Google's search result data for its use. As a practical le…
Google scraped the web to build itself. A court just said others can scrape Google.
A judge dismissed Google's DMCA case against scraper SerpApi, ruling search results are public facts. To refile, Google may have to admit how much unlicensed content its own results contain. Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. … Source
Google Refuses to Back Down in AI Scraping War Despite Legal Blow, Prepares Amended Complaint
A recent court dismissal may have halted Google‘s initial legal strategy against web-scraping firm SerpApi. However, the search giant is making it clear that the fight is far from over. Despite a federal judge ruling that search results themselves aren’t protected under copyright law, Google confirmed to Ars Technica that it plans to double down and amend its complaint against SerpApi to keep AI scraping bots from harvesting its platform data. T…
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