Topic: content theft

  • Penske Media Sues Google Over AI Overviews Revenue Loss

    Penske Media Sues Google Over AI Overviews Revenue Loss

    Penske Media Corporation is suing Google for using its content in AI-generated search summaries without compensation, causing significant financial harm. The lawsuit alleges Google leverages its search dominance to force publishers into accepting AI use of their material or risk lower visibility ...

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  • People CEO Accuses Google of Stealing Content, Calls It a 'Bad Actor'

    People CEO Accuses Google of Stealing Content, Calls It a 'Bad Actor'

    The CEO of People, Inc. accuses Google of using a single crawler to both index content for search and scrape material for AI products without compensation. This practice has led to a significant drop in search referral traffic for publishers while enabling Google to use their content to train com...

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  • Rolling Stone Parent Company Sues Google Over AI Overviews

    Rolling Stone Parent Company Sues Google Over AI Overviews

    Penske Media Corporation is suing Google, claiming its AI search summaries reduce website traffic and ad revenue by discouraging clicks to original sources. This lawsuit is the most significant U.S. media challenge to Google's AI feature, with similar complaints from other companies and industry ...

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