Judge gives Google legal permission to steal content for AI summaries
A US judge has said he's sympathetic to publishers who are losing money because of Google's AI summaries stealing content, but he's not going to do anything to stop it. Google has had an antitrust case dismissed Google recently escaped having its search and advertising business split over antitrust accusations from the Department of Justice. But it has been facing multiple other antitrust cases and now there's one fewer. According to Reuters , Google's parent company Alphabet had convinced a US federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit. It had been brought by Penske Media Corp, best known for publishing Rolling Stone magazine, and Chegg. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
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A US judge has said he's sympathetic to publishers who are losing money because of Google's AI summaries stealing content, but he's not going to do anything to stop it. Google has had an antitrust case dismissed Google recently escaped having its search and advertising business split over antitrust accusations from the Department of Justice. But it has been facing multiple other antitrust cases and now there's one fewer. According to Reuters , Google's parent company Alphabet had convinced a US federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit. It had been brought by Penske Media Corp, best known for publishing Rolling Stone magazine, and Chegg. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
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A US judge has said he's sympathetic to publishers who are losing money because of Google's AI summaries stealing content, but he's not going to do anything to stop it.
Google has had an antitrust case dismissed Google recently escaped having its search and advertising business split over antitrust accusations from the Department of Justice.
But it has been facing multiple other antitrust cases and now there's one fewer.
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