News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson warned artificial intelligence companies that his company will sue them if they are scraping the publisher’s websites without paying, reports Charlotte Tobitt.
Tobitt reports, “Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in San Francisco on Monday, Thomson said News Corp (which owns The Times, The Sun, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Australian and many more titles) has a ‘woo and a sue strategy.’
“He explained: ‘We’ll woo you, we’d like you to be our partner, but if you’re stealing our stuff we are going to sue you. And if you look at a lot of the bots coming in and scraping our stuff and they’re using our material in new AI verticals, we’re coming for you. We can see you doing it. We’ll get round to you eventually. There will be a discount for those who hand themselves in and there’ll be a penalty for those who resist…
“‘The fact that people either legitimately or illicitly are already using our content tells us that there is an emerging market that is not yet fully appreciated.'”
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