• by Ray Schultz , 6 hours ago

Google and its owner Alphabet have asked a federal court to dismiss the scraping lawsuit filed against them in September by Penske Media (PMC). 

They ask that the action be dismissed “with prejudice,” meaning that it cannot be revived.  

The defendants did not justify the case for dismissal in the motion, but requested oral argument.  

Penske Media, which owns Billboard, Rolling Stone, WWD, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Vibe and other titles, charged that Google’s AI Summaries directly provide users with PMC content, decreasing traffic to its sites.

The complaint adds that “Google’s use of online publishing content to compete directly with publishers, without compensation to those publishers, constitutes an underpayment to those online publishers in the Input Market for search.”