“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet,” web scraper says after court win

A court dismissed Google’s DMCA case against SerpApi over scraping search results.

The judge said Google lacked standing because it did not own the copyrighted material at issue.

The ruling could weaken Reddit’s similar lawsuit and other platform efforts to use copyright law against scraping.

It adds to the broader fight over AI bots, web scraping, and access to public web content.