Reddit Inc.‘s assertion that it has authority to sue companies for copyright infringement on behalf of its users drew skepticism from a Manhattan-based US judge on Thursday.
The extent of Reddit’s authority to sue on behalf of its users was scrutinized during nearly three hours of oral arguments over whether to dismiss the platform’s lawsuit alleging Perplexity AI Inc., SerpApi LLC, and two other data scraping companies illegally collected Reddit data via Google search results to resell it.
Reddit is seeking monetary damages and a court order to stop the alleged scraping and use of its data in ...
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