The dispute centers on 250-word snippets, alleged blocking evasion and whether Brave’s AI data business substitutes for licensed journalism
News Corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, argues that the dispute is not merely about search engine indexing. Instead, it concerns the increasingly contested boundary between conventional web search and the commercial distribution of publisher content as data for generative AI services.
According to News Corp, a conventional search engine accesses websites transparently, allows publishers to block its crawlers and displays short excerpts accompanied by links that direct users to the original source.