Reddit widens DMCA fight over AI scraping of its content in Google search results

A federal judge largely denied a motion to dismiss Reddit’s DMCA-based lawsuit accusing SerpApi and Perplexity AI of conspiring to illegally scrape Reddit content from Google search results, finding the claims plausible at this early stage. Reddit says its licensing with Google prohibits such access and that circumvention by the defendants undermines content removals and harms its users and brand. The ruling keeps the case alive and could push AI scrapers to obtain licenses, with discovery potentially clarifying whether Reddit authorized Google to protect content and whether all public search results are protected by copyright.