{"id":985549,"date":"2026-01-16T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985549"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:13:41","slug":"google-defends-ai-search-summaries-in-rolling-stone-publishers-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/google-defends-ai-search-summaries-in-rolling-stone-publishers-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Google defends AI search summaries in Rolling Stone publisher&#8217;s lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has asked a federal judge to dismiss a \u200dlawsuit by the publisher of Rolling \u200bStone, Billboard and Variety magazines that accuses the tech giant of \u2060eroding traffic to media companies&#8217; websites by adding AI-generated summaries to search results.<\/p>\n<p>In a on Monday in Washington&#8217;s federal district court, Google and its parent Alphabet called Penske Media Corp&#8217;s (PMC) lawsuit &#8220;legally defective in every way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Penske \u200csued last year, \u200cclaiming Google broke antitrust law by forcing publishers to allow AI overviews of their content if they want \u200cto remain indexed in Google search. Online education company Chegg is separately suing Google over its AI overviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has asked a federal judge to dismiss a \u200dlawsuit by the publisher of Rolling \u200bStone, Billboard and Variety magazines that accuses the tech giant of \u2060eroding traffic to media companies&#8217; websites by adding AI-generated summaries to search results. In a on Monday in Washington&#8217;s federal district court, Google and its parent Alphabet called Penske Media Corp&#8217;s (PMC) lawsuit &#8220;legally defective in every way.&#8221; Penske \u200csued last year, \u200cclaiming Google broke antitrust law by forcing publishers to allow AI overviews of their content if they want \u200cto remain indexed in Google search. Online education company Chegg is separately suing Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}