Google Amends SerpApi Suit With Content Licensing Terms

Google amended its complaint against SerpApi on August 10, three weeks after a federal judge threw out both of its DMCA claims over the scraping of Google Search results.

The new complaint adds terms from Google’s content licensing deals, the material Chief U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers found missing from the original complaint. Google had 21 days to amend and filed on the deadline.

What Google Added

The amended complaint spells out what Google’s licensing contracts require of it. One deal with a licensing partner, in versions dating to 2017, requires Google to make commercially reasonable efforts to protect licensed content from outside access. Another provider requires that its licensed material not be downloadable by third parties.

Google says its deal with Reddit tells it not to let third parties pull out and sell the licensed content on their own, and that Reddit asked for technical measures after suspecting scrapers were reselling that content. Google also…