(Reuters) – News Corp has been sued by Google Search Engine Brave Software, which aims to prevent a demand from Rupert Murdoch’s company for when readers are aimed at copyright articles at the Wall Street Journal and New York Post.

In a Wednesday night complaint filed in the Federal Court of San Francisco, Brave said that News Corp sent a letter of cessation and withdrawal that threatened litigation and demanded compensation for the alleged misappropriation of copyright articles “searching” their websites and indexing their content.

Brave countered that it is “fair use” to index website content “, which all search engine operators must do to exist.”

He also accused News Corp of threatening to interrupt advances in generative artificial intelligence, saying that Chatbots like Openai’s Chatgpt and Google Gemini are based on search engine responses.

Brave, based in San Francisco, said that his brave search has less than 1% of the search market, with Google that commands almost 90% and Microsoft obtained much of the rest.

“The defendants, who collaborate with Google, seek to besiege the market brave and promote the already high barriers to the market for infinitely higher entrance,” said Brave.

News Corp did not immediately respond to comment applications on Thursday. Their British, Australian and Dow Jones operations are also accused.

In October, News Corp sued the perplexity of the AI ​​Startup for an alleged “massive” illegal copy of its items.

The demand of Brave joined the intensification of the battle that the publishers against technology companies that want to use copyright content without authorization to support the IA.

In his letter of cessation and withdrawal of February 27, News Corp said that the brave are committed to “fighting the terrible problems of Big Tech privacy”, but acts differently.

“Brave monetizes its robbery to a large amount of intellectual property by sales Puro content to some of the same technology companies that are publicly derived,” said News Corp.

“In doing so, Brave harms content creators, including innumerable journalists, publishers and other staff responsible for producing high quality content,” he added.

Brave’s demand seeks a statement that the use of Copyright News Corp items that can be grouped into search rates that can be licensed and sold is not a copyright offense.

(Jonathan Sumpel’s report in New York; Marguerita Choy edition)