{"id":61996,"date":"2025-12-05T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61996\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:54:10","slug":"the-new-york-times-sues-perplexity-for-producing-verbatim-copies-of-its-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61996\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times sues Perplexity for producing \u2018verbatim\u2019 copies of its work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cBy copying The Times\u2019s copyrighted content and creating substitutive output derived from its works, obviating the need for users to visit The Times\u2019s website or purchase its newspaper, Perplexity is misappropriating substantial subscription, advertising, licensing, and affiliate revenue opportunities that belong rightfully and exclusively to The Times,\u201d the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The NYT is seeking damages and is also asking the court to permanently block the AI startup from engaging in its allegedly unlawful behavior. \u201cPublishers have been suing new tech companies for a hundred years, starting with radio, TV, the internet, social media and now AI,\u201d Perplexity spokesperson Jesse Dwyer said in an emailed statement to The Verge. \u201cFortunately it\u2019s never worked, or we\u2019d all be talking about this by telegraph.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Update, December 5th: Added a statement from Perplexity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBy copying The Times\u2019s copyrighted content and creating substitutive output derived from its works, obviating the need for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3250,32953,2710,9,11,10,12,1413,1601],"class_list":["post-61996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-ai","tag-copyright","tag-law","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}