It doesn’t hurt SerpApi’s defense against Reddit’s lawsuit, because SerpApi does not need to prove they have your permission. They only need to prove that Reddit does not have the legal authority to prevent SerpApi from scraping your content. Which they almost certainly don’t.
Scraping publicly available content is not and has never been a copyright violation. As someone else pointed out in this thread, search engines wouldn't exist if that was the case.
But even if it was (which it's not) platforms like Reddit do now own the content. They can not be a gatekeeper to it. The person who posted the content owns it. They have legal standing to sue for copyright infringement, the platform does not.
This article is incredibly self serving, and they try way to hard to paint themselves as the defender of the little guy, but they are fundamentally correct. Reddit winning a case like this would mean every single content hosting website would now have a pathway to claim ownership over user generated content. It does not take someone with a law degree to see why that's a problem.
All this nonsense because of a silly law well past it's due date. Demolish copyright, and let's move on to a world where ideas worth sharing are shared without any blocking. And if someone feels their "ideas" should not be shared without their consent, well, they can keep it to themselves - we're a society after all.
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 26.1 ms ] threadI have posted to Reddit and I do not authorize any AI company to use my posts as training data.
Our Response to Reddit, Inc. vs. SerpApi, LLC: Defending the First Amendment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739889
is that right? if so that's some real self-serving BS right there
Scraping publicly available content is not and has never been a copyright violation. As someone else pointed out in this thread, search engines wouldn't exist if that was the case.
But even if it was (which it's not) platforms like Reddit do now own the content. They can not be a gatekeeper to it. The person who posted the content owns it. They have legal standing to sue for copyright infringement, the platform does not.
This article is incredibly self serving, and they try way to hard to paint themselves as the defender of the little guy, but they are fundamentally correct. Reddit winning a case like this would mean every single content hosting website would now have a pathway to claim ownership over user generated content. It does not take someone with a law degree to see why that's a problem.