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News Corp countersues Brave Software over AI article scraping

News Corp has filed a countersuit against Brave Software, accusing the search engine of "flagrant theft." This legal action follows a lawsuit initiated by Brave Software against News Corp. News Corp alleges that Brave has been distributing and selling articles from its publications, including The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, to AI companies without proper authorization. AI

IMPACT Highlights ongoing legal battles over data rights and AI training, potentially impacting how AI companies access and utilize copyrighted content.

RANK_REASON Legal dispute between a media company and a search engine regarding data scraping for AI.

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News Corp countersues Brave Software over AI article scraping

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Reuters: News Corp countersues Brave for allegedly ‘scraping’ articles for AI . “News Corp, facing a lawsuit by search engine Brave Software, has filed a counte

    Reuters: News Corp countersues Brave for allegedly ‘scraping’ articles for AI . “News Corp, facing a lawsuit by search engine Brave Software, has filed a countersuit accusing it ‌of “flagrant theft” in distributing and selling versions of articles from the Wall Street Journal and…