Judge dismisses Google DMCA lawsuit against SerpApi

// 2h agoNEWS

Judge dismisses Google DMCA lawsuit against SerpApi

A federal court has dismissed Google's DMCA anti-circumvention lawsuit against search scraping service SerpApi. The court ruled that SearchGuard bot protections do not effectively control access to copyrighted works because Google Search results consist primarily of public factual data.

// ANALYSIS

Attempting to weaponize copyright anti-circumvention laws against web scraping threatens the open internet, making this dismissal an important victory for data access and AI developers.

• Google's lawsuit attempted to restrict web scraping despite building its own search engine empire and AI models on scraping the open web.

• The court rightly rejected extending DMCA Section 1201 protection to bot-blocking CAPTCHAs like SearchGuard when the underlying data is not copyright-protected.

• Although Google was granted leave to refile narrower claims regarding specific copyrighted snippets, the ruling severely restricts tech giants from using DRM law to wall off public search data.

// TAGS

googleserpapidmcacopyrightweb-scrapinglegalsearchguard

DISCOVERED

2h ago

2026-07-27

PUBLISHED

4h ago

2026-07-27

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

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