Google Gets 21 Days to Salvage DMCA Claims Against SerpApi
· 2d ago · Originally reported by PPC Land
A court ruling rejected several authorizations Google cited, including a Reddit license, in its DMCA case against SerpApi. Google has until November 30 to identify licensors supporting its claims. The decision is being watched closely by SEO tool providers that depend on SerpApi's data scraping services.
Why it matters
The outcome could shape how scraping-based SEO and ad intelligence tools access search data, affecting companies that build products on top of SerpApi's results.
Explain it like I’m new here
It's like Google suing a company for copying its answer key, and a judge saying 'prove who actually owns the answers' before the case can move forward.
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