Google’s DMCA lawsuit against SerpApi, a Texas company that sells scraped search results, was dismissed for a second time on Monday, as U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Google’s amended complaint still didn’t give it grounds to sue over content it licenses. Rogers had already tossed Google’s claims over most search-results content in July, so Google narrowed its case to licensed material and added that partners like Reddit had asked it to block outsiders from scraping and reselling that content. Rogers said Google never described what content the Reddit deal covers or showed it’s protected by copyright, and never showed the agreement gave Google the right to put anti-scraping measures in place. She gave Google 21 days to refile, but only to fix those gaps.
