News Corp countersues Brave for allegedly 'scraping' articles for AI

July 21 : News Corp, facing a lawsuit by search engine Brave Software, has filed a countersuit accusing it of "flagrant theft" in distributing and selling versions of articles from the Wall Street Journal and New York Post to AI companies.Brave had last year preemptively sued the media giant, seeking a court declaration that its practices were legal. It sued after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from News Corp, which is led by the family of Rupert Murdoch.In a Tuesday filing in the Oakland, California, federal court, News Corp said Brave's unauthorized "covert scraping" and resale of its copyrighted articles fall "nowhere near the bounds" of legally acceptable conduct known as fair use."The more content Brave copies and sells, the more revenue it generates, and the less incentive AI co