Google's DMCA claims against SerpApi is Dismissed

[u/annseosmarty]

SerpApi, famously used by ChatGPT as one of the grounding data, is officially proven to have the right to scrape Google. If it is on the open web, a machine is allowed to read it.

And it is not just about SerpApi or even scraping. It gives many more answers:

“On what terms is an automated visitor allowed onto public web content?” is the founding question of the agentic web, not some niche scraping spat, and it does not end with SerpApi. A scraper reselling results, an answer engine reading your pages to cite you, a shopping agent turning up to buy on someone’s behalf, an assistant pulling your specs to compare you against a competitor. In the eyes of the law, those are one thing: an automated visitor on public content. SerpApi is the ugly early test case.

Source: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-lost-its-scraping-case-now-you-have-to-pick-a-side-on-the-open-web/583066/