Google Tells Publishers to Share Content for AI or Lose Fees
Google Tells Publishers to Share Content for AI or Lose Fees
Publish Date: 2026-06-25 20:42:00
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- Google is proposing a pilot program that offers AI-powered article overviews in Google News and through its Gemini AI chatbot to selected news publishers.
- In exchange for participation, Google is requesting broad rights to use these publishers’ content, potentially including training its AI models.
- Disagreement may result in the loss of Google’s annual fee for Google News features and signals Google’s plan to end the current partnership program.
- Google’s spokesperson highlighted the expansion of partnerships through the News AI pilot program to explore AI’s role in audience engagement.
- The European Commission began an antitrust investigation into whether Google improperly uses publishers’ content for generative AI in search results.
- A group of publishers recently filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging that the companies used their copyrighted articles without permission or compensation to train AI products.
