On July 31, 2026, US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer denied a motion to dismiss from SerpApi, a web scraper accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI to illegally scrape copyrighted content from Reddit. The judge stated that Reddit has plausibly alleged a conspiracy, with SerpApi providing a product to bypass Google’s access controls and Perplexity AI compensating for it. This ruling follows a recent court decision that dismissed a similar lawsuit from Google, which had not established that rights holders like Reddit authorized Google to prevent scraping of protected content. SerpApi responded by claiming that both Google and Reddit are attempting to use the DMCA to restrict access to the open Internet.
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Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss in Reddit's DMCA Case Against SerpApi
A US District Judge has denied a motion to dismiss in a case where Reddit accuses SerpApi and Perplexity AI of illegally scraping its copyrighted content. The ruling comes after a similar case involving Google was dismissed, highlighting ongoing legal disputes over content scraping and copyright issues.
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Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
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Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss in Reddit's DMCA Case Against SerpApi