Federal Court Dismisses Google's DMCA Claims Against SerpApi, Preserving Open Search Scraping
On July 20, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California threw out Google's lawsuit alleging SerpApi's search-scraping violated the DMCA. The ruling confirms that blocking public search results isn’t copyright circumvention, keeping data-scraping tools legal and protecting developers, AI firms, and researchers who rely on open search data.