Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
Summary
Ars Technica reports on Reddit's DMCA lawsuit against SerpApi and Perplexity AI over scraping Reddit content from Google search results. A US district judge largely denied a motion to dismiss, finding it plausible that a conspiracy existed and that circumvention of access controls occurred. The article discusses potential licensing implications and the broader tension between open access and content protection in AI/data activities.