“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
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A court dismissed Google's DMCA lawsuit against web scraper SerpApi, ruling Google lacks standing since it doesn't own search result content. Reddit faces a similar dismissal. Experts warn both companies are misusing copyright law to "re-enclose" the open web, threatening research, journalism, and public data access beyond just AI scraping.
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