SerpApi’s Motion to Dismiss Reddit Lawsuit Fails ⇥ arstechnica.com

Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica:

According to [Judge] Engelmayer, it would be impractical to expect partners to update licensing deals every time a company rolls out new security methods. Additionally, Engelmayer found that “the Google Decision is not to the contrary” of Reddit’s case because, unlike Google, Reddit went “beyond the bare allegation” that Google used to broadly claim that it generally “has licenses to display copyrighted content.” Instead, Reddit argued that its licensing agreement with Google directly prohibits certain uses of Reddit data that are now being accessed due to the circumvention methods employed by malicious web scrapers.

Really interesting to read this reasoning (PDF) back-to-back with that of the other SerpApi case. If I — a non-lawyer — am reading this right, it seems that scraping Google results may not be inherently wrong, but may not be legal to use any scraped data also bound by a licensing agreement.