r/webscraping • u/Independent-Elk-1019 • 12h ago
A federal court dismissed Google's DMCA claims against SerpApi
TLDR:A federal court dismissed Google's DMCA claims against SerpApi, ruling that blocking scrapers from public search results isn't copyright circumvention when no copyrighted content is involved. Those claims are gone for good, but the part about licensed Knowledge Panel images was dismissed with leave to amend — Google has 21 days to try again by proving copyright owners authorized SearchGuard. A win for SERP scraping tools generally.