{
  "id": 11478305,
  "title": "Judge gives Google legal permission to steal content for AI summaries",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/judge-gives-google-legal-permission-to-steal-content-for-ai-summaries",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-02T16:22:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AppleInsider",
    "slug": "appleinsider",
    "url": "https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/10/02/judge-gives-google-legal-permission-to-steal-content-for-ai-summaries"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Google, allowing the company to continue using content for its AI summaries. The lawsuit, brought by Penske Media Corp and Chegg, claimed that Google's practice of using content for its AI summaries without sending traffic to the original publishers was unfair.\n\nThe judge expressed sympathy for the publishers, who are losing money due to Google's AI summaries, but ruled that they have no legal expectation that Google will send them traffic in exchange for indexing their content. This decision is a setback for publishers who rely on Google to drive traffic to their websites.\n\nIn response to the growing use of AI tools, a coalition of media organizations, including the Guardian and the Financial Times, has released a new standard for tracking how AI tools use publishers' content. The initiative, called SPUR, aims to ensure that publishers are fairly compensated for their content and has invited major tech companies, including Google, to help shape the standard.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}