News Corp. is fighting Google at the European Commission over what it calls improper scraping of content for use in search results, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The owner of the Times of London, the New York Post, the Journal and many other media properties around the world,  filed a formal complaint with the commission, the European Union’s executive body, the report said. The story cited an unnamed source familiar with the allegations.

News Corp. charged that Google takes news from its sites and makes it available within Google search results. If a company wants to keep that scraped content out of Google’s results, it has to give up on having even links to its stories show up in Google searches, News Corp. alleges, according to the report. The complaint said that’s an abuse of Google’s dominance in search.

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