Reddit Keeps Its Strange DMCA Fight over Google Search Results Alive

Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive

Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.

Perplexity AI loses bid to toss Reddit lawsuit over data scraping

Reddit's DMCA Claims Against Perplexity, SerpApi Survive AI Scraping Challenge

A Manhattan federal judge allowed Reddit, represented by Bartlit Beck and Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch, to proceed with core DMCA claims against SerpApi, represented by Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and Perplexity, represented by Keker, Van Nest & Peters and N. Read & Co., over alleged circumvention of Google’s anti-bot protections to obtain Reddit content at scale.

SerpApi’s Motion to Dismiss Reddit Lawsuit Fails – Pixel Envy

Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica: According to [Judge] Engelmayer, it would be impractical to expect partners to update licensing deals every time a company rolls out new security methods. Additionally, Engelmayer found that “the Google Decision is not to the contrary” of Reddit’s case because, unlike Google, Reddit went “beyond the bare allegation” that Google used to broadly claim that it generally “has licenses to display copyrighted content.” …

Manhattan judge strikes down Perplexity AI defense in Reddit copyright lawsuit

A federal judge in New York has refused to throw out the core of Reddit’s copyright case against Perplexity AI. The fight is over how AI search engines harvest user posts and the ruling will set a precedent on whether anti-circumvention law can be used against companies that scrape content to feed AI answers. What is Reddit accusing Perplexity and SerpAPI of? U.S. District Judge Paul A. Englemeyer declined to dismiss Reddit’s Digital Millennium …

Reddit lawsuit against SerpApi survives dismissal motion

Reddit's legal win could strengthen its position in data licensing, impacting AI firms' access to user-generated content and future negotiations. The post Reddit lawsuit against SerpApi survives dismissal motion appeared first on Crypto Briefing.