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Rolling Stone, Billboard owner Penske sues Google over AI overviews
By Reuters
Updated:
12:59 AM EDT, Sun September 14, 2025
Source: Reuters
The owner of Rolling Stone, Billboard and Variety sued Google on
Friday, alleging the technology giant’s AI summaries use its
journalism without consent and reduce traffic to its websites.
The lawsuit by Penske Media in federal court in Washington, DC, marks
the first time a major US publisher has taken Alphabet-owned Google to
court over the AI-generated summaries that now appear on top of its
search results.
News organizations have for months said the new features, including
Google’s “AI Overviews,” siphon traffic away from their sites,
eroding advertising and subscription revenue.
Penske, a family-owned media conglomerate led by Jay Penske and whose
content attracts 120 million online visitors a month, said Google only
includes publishers’ websites in its search results if it can also
use their articles in AI summaries.
Without the leverage, Google would have to pay publishers for the right
to republish their work or use it to train its AI systems, the company
said in the lawsuit. It added Google was able to impose such terms due
to its search dominance, pointing to a federal court’s finding last
year that the tech giant held a near 90% share of the US search
market.
“We have a responsibility to proactively fight for the future of
digital media and preserve its integrity – all of which is
threatened by Google’s current actions,” Penske said.
It alleged that about 20% of Google searches that link to its sites
now show AI Overviews, a share it expects to rise, and added that its
affiliate revenue has fallen by more than a third from its peak by the
end of 2024 as search traffic declined.
Online education company Chegg also sued Google in February, alleging
that the search giant’s AI-generated overviews were eroding demand
for original content and undermining publishers’ ability to compete.
Responding to Penske’s lawsuit, Google said on Saturday that AI
overviews offer a better experience to users and send traffic to a
wider variety of websites.
“With AI Overviews, people find Search more helpful and use it more,
creating new opportunities for content to be discovered. We will defend
against these meritless claims.” Google Spokesperson Jose Castaneda
said.
A judge handed the company a earlier this month by ruling that it will
not have to sell its Chrome browser as part of efforts to open up
competition in search.
The move disappointed some publishers and industry bodies, including
the News/Media Alliance which has said the decision left publishers
without the ability to opt out of AI overviews.
“All of the elements being negotiated with every other AI company
doesn’t apply to Google because they have the market power to not
engage in those healthy practices,” Danielle Coffey, CEO of the
News/Media Alliance, a trade group representing more than 2,200
US-based publishers, told Reuters on Friday.
“When you have the massive scale and market power that Google has,
you are not obligated to abide by the same norms. That is the
problem.”
Coffey was referring to AI licensing deals firms such as ChatGPT-maker
OpenAI have been signing with the likes of News Corp, Financial Times
and The Atlantic. Google, whose Gemini chatbot competes with ChatGPT,
has been slower to sign such deals.
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