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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Climate change, pollution, environmental degradation and resource depletion are just a few of the greatest challenges facing the world in the 21st century. Tackling these challenges means carrying out ...

An increasing number of agencies are waking up to a growing threat: AI companies are quietly scraping creative work on the web without permission. What started as a concern for authors and artists is ...

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 ...