Why rolling the owner of the stone in the sand media just declared war on Google

CEO Penska Media CEO PENNA speaks at 2024 forbes Iconoclast Summit on Cipriana Street, 20. June 2024. in New York. (Photo: Steven Ferdman / Getty Images)

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Cleaning tension between media companies and Google Through the use of journalism of the search giants In their AI products She just spilled into a new battle in the courtroom. Penske MEDIA – Family enterprise behind the place in the form Rolling stone, Varietyand Bilbord – He just became the first major American news publisher to sue Google through ai previews that now appear at the top of the search results page.

Federal antitrust lawsuit It accuses Google abuse of its dominance in search of Publishers in the Shovel Agreement: basically, Google requires that Google will allow for its inclusion in their AI and accepts in Google search. Complaint for Penska claims that practice is not a fair financial damage, and the company is associated with a company’s revenue for more than a third (as a result of Google’s examinations that join the sand otherwise.

What is more important, Penske also describes this dynamics as an antitrust behavior from a company that abuses what the federal government has already described as Google’s monopoly Status in the Empire of Internet Search. Penske says that approximately 20% of Google searches are now showing and reviews – and here, to respond to the publisher’s papers, responding to the user’s request directly on the results page, and that readers click.

Digital Media Ekecutive Jason He called Penske that submits a “wicked-smart, original antitrust lawsuit”, noting that the first directly to tie Google’s products in search of monopolies. Adds a trip to blogger Nate Osles, which leads travel lemming, In the long post to K: “Google’s AI reviews = theft.“ The paper emphasizes one of the most significant elements of Penska archiving – that it does not accuse the Google of Monopoly Abuse, but also acts as a “monogsist” (yes, it is a real word) in the field of licensing with the content of AI.

Simply put, Google’s monopsonist in connection with the sand should use his trial domination that not only locks in the search mark, but to set the conditions all and companies acquire content that train their systems.

Google, of course, insists that and examinations are scheduled to use everyone. “With and examinations, people find more useful and use it more, creating new opportunities for content that will be detected,” said spokesman Jose Castaned, rejected Penske’s claims as “without any objection.” The company claims that the traffic that measures bring The management of getting from the user now comes from users who are more engaged and so valuable.

But that the defense sincerely seems pretty poorly in the light of the federal government that Google has a monopoly, controls almost 90% of the market. Besplate? Google’s proposal for publishers to be grateful for “better” traffic, taking their own things, continuing to benefit from these things, and then I do not regret it, instead, you should instead need to be used for yourself instead.

Needless to say that Penska drew a new line in the sand here whether professional journalism has any real protection in the ERI in and the broadcast of the Internet that Google clearly wants to control Google.