Our AI Complaint
The European Publishers Council (EPC) has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission alleging that Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. are abusing their dominant position in general search services, in breach of Article 102 TFEU, through the deployment of AI Overviews and AI Mode within Google Search.
Everything you need to know
EPC Chairman, Christian van Thillo
“This complaint is not about resisting innovation or artificial intelligence. It is about stopping a dominant gatekeeper from using its market power to take publishers’ content without consent, without fair compensation, and without giving publishers any realistic way to protect their journalism.
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AI Overviews and AI Mode fundamentally undermine the economic compact that has sustained the open web.
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If these practices continue, the damage will be structural and irreversible. No amount of money can restore lost audiences, weakened brand relationships, or eroded reader trust once publishers are disintermediated. Effective competition, media pluralism, and democratic discourse, all objectives rightly at the heart of the European Democracy Shield, depend on timely and decisive enforcement.”