Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.
A US District Judge has rejected SerpApi's motion to dismiss a case against Perplexity AI and Reddit. The lawsuit alleges a conspiracy to unlawfully scrape Reddit content from Google search results. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer found that Reddit had plausible grounds to claim a conspiracy, citing SerpApi's product enabling bypass of Google's access controls and Perplexity AI's financial support.
This ruling follows a recent dismissal of a similar lawsuit by Google, which had not demonstrated rights holders like Reddit had ever sanctioned the search engine to stop scraping protected material. Google intends to revise its complaint to maintain the lawsuit's viability. SerpApi contends that both Google and Reddit are leveraging the DMCA to restrict the open Internet by claiming unauthorized control over content they did not create and do not own.
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