Publishers are now fighting back against unauthorized AI web scraping, abandoning polite requests for aggressive technical ...

While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...

Publishers are stepping up efforts to protect their websites from tech companies that hoover up content for new AI tools. The media companies have sued, forged licensing deals to be compensated for ...

It really is the great rock n’ roll swindle. Billboard has published evidence collated by the international music publishing trade association, the ICMP that some of the world’s biggest tech companies ...

A hot potato: Generative AI models have to be trained with an inordinate amount of source material before they are ready for prime time, and that can be a problem for creative professionals that don't ...

UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), together with eleven data protection and privacy authorities from around the world, have published a statement calling social media platforms to up their ...

In June, the IAB Tech Lab proposed a new initiative to create guardrails around how AI bots are permitted to access content, with an emphasis on publisher monetization. It’s hoping that its new ...

LinkedIn claims ProAPIs operates a network of fake accounts that scrape its members’ data, such as company and school ...

LinkedIn obtained a permanent injunction on Dec. 6 in its six-year-old lawsuit against data scraping company hiQ Labs, which LinkedIn quickly cheered as a "final, decisive victory" that established an ...