Scraping Bubble: Companies specializing in scraping or otherwise harvesting publicly available content to train AI models are becoming increasingly common. In particular, some firms are targeting ...

SerpApi is asking a federal court to dismiss Google's DMCA lawsuit. It argues Google lacks standing to bring anti-circumvention claims over search results that display third-party content. The case ...

SerpApi alleges it’s just doing ‘what Google does to everyone else.’ SerpApi alleges it’s just doing ‘what Google does to everyone else.’ is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, ...

QUESTION: How can CISOs defend against AI scraping? Areejit Banerjee, Senior Manager of Data Protection Strategy & Product Trust; Researcher in AI Governance, Purdue University: Organizations with ...

“Google argued that ‘SerpApi’s business model is parasitic,’ and that it ‘appropriates the output of other services that have made substantial investments to generate it.’” On December 19, Google LLC ...

Spotify has disabled multiple user accounts after an open-source group claimed it scraped millions of songs and related data from the music streaming platform. The move comes after Anna’s Archive ...

Google has filed a federal lawsuit against SerpApi, accusing the Texas firm of using “parasitic” methods to scrape and resell search results. Google alleges that SerpApi bypasses security walls like ...

On Friday, Google announced it had filed a lawsuit (PDF) against SerpApi for scraping the Google search results. Google alleges that SerpApi is running an "unlawful" operation that bypasses Google’s ...

Google has filed a lawsuit to protect its search results, targeting a firm called SerpApi that has turned Google’s 10 blue links into a business. According to Google, SerpApi ignores established law ...

Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...

Generative AI companies and websites are locked in a bitter struggle over automated scraping. The AI companies are increasingly aggressive about downloading pages for use as training data; the ...

A group of YouTubers filed a putative copyright class action accusing Nvidia Corp. of illegally circumventing protective measures to scrape millions of videos to train its AI. The entities owning the ...