Google refiles DMCA claim against scraper SerpApi
What this answers
- Is Google's DMCA lawsuit against SerpApi over?
- No — after a judge dismissed most of Google's original DMCA claims against the scraper SerpApi in July 2026, Google filed an amended complaint on August 11 adding new allegations to try to keep the case alive.
Google filed a First Amended Complaint against scraper SerpApi on August 11, adding new allegations to try to revive the DMCA anti-circumvention claim that Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had mostly dismissed in July, per Chat GPT Is Eating the World. The July ruling gave Google 21 days to replead a narrower claim tied to Knowledge Panel images; the amended complaint is that response.
Why it matters: It's the next round in one of the only active tests of whether the DMCA's anti-circumvention rule can be used to block the scraping that increasingly feeds AI answer engines.
The record: GoogleAI training & copyright litigationReddit
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗
Posted to the wire August 11, 2026. Edited by Joe Balewski.