Web scraper sued by Google claims Google is the one scraping the web

SerpApi, a institution that offers tools to scrape contented connected the web, is fighting backmost against Google's copyright suit that accuses it of vacuuming up hunt results "at an astonishing scale." In a motion to disregard filed connected Friday, SerpApi argues that Google doesn't clasp a copyright connected its hunt results, alleging that the motor is built "on the backs of others who posted 'the world's information.'"

In December, Google sued SerpApi, claiming the smaller scraper had violated the Copyright Act by utilizing "deceptive means" to entree and scrape its hunt results. Google besides alleges that SerpApi recovered a mode to bypass its anti-scraping SearchGu …

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