Search Engine Didn’t Infringe News Corp. Copyrights, Suit Says

Search engine operator Brave Software Inc. sued News Corp., asking a federal judge to rule it hasn’t infringed the Rupert Murdoch-owned media mammoth’s copyrights with search summaries and tools for generative AI companies.

Brave’s scraping of News Corp. websites such as The Wall Street Journal’s and New York Post’s are covered by the fair use doctrine, Brave said in a complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The company also seeks a ruling it didn’t breach News Corp.'s terms of service when it sold a search index of scraped articles to AI ...