{"id":62024,"date":"2025-12-05T18:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/62024\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T18:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:24:15","slug":"new-york-times-sues-perplexity-alleging-copyright-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/62024\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Sues Perplexity, Alleging Copyright Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times<\/a> sued Perplexity<\/a> Friday (Dec. 5), alleging that the artificial intelligence (AI) startup repeatedly violated its copyrights.<\/p>\n

The New York Times reported<\/a> Friday (Dec. 5) that the suit accuses Perplexity of violating its copyrights by retrieving The Times\u2019 content with its AI-powered search engine and displaying large parts of that content in a way that competes with The Times.<\/p>\n

The suit also accuses Perplexity of damaging the publisher\u2019s brand by in some cases making up information and falsely attributing that information to The Times, according to the report.<\/p>\n

The New York Times contacted Perplexity several times over the past 18 months, demanding that it stop using The Times\u2019 content in its AI-powered search engine until the companies reach an agreement, per the report.<\/p>\n

Reached by PYMNTS, Perplexity Head of Communication Jesse Dwyer<\/a> said in an emailed statement: \u201cPublishers have been suing new tech companies for a hundred years, starting with radio, TV, the internet, social media and now AI. Fortunately it\u2019s never worked, or we\u2019d all be talking about this by telegraph.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to The New York Times report, the publisher sued<\/a> another AI startup, OpenAI<\/a>, and its partner Microsoft<\/a> in 2023, accusing them of training their AI on its content without its permission.<\/p>\n

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The publisher signed the first licensing agreement<\/a> allowing its content to be used for generative AI in May, the report said. The deal allows Amazon<\/a> to use The Times\u2019 content in its AI platforms and to train its AI models, per the report.<\/p>\n

Social media platform Reddit<\/a> sued Perplexity and three data scraping firms in October, accusing them of harvesting its content<\/a> without authorization.<\/p>\n

Reddit\u2019s complaint alleges that the companies collected and resold data from the platform\u2019s discussion forms through automated tools.<\/p>\n

It was reported in August that Japanese media company Nikkei<\/a> and the Asahi Shimbun<\/a> newspaper filed lawsuits accusing Perplexity of copyright infringement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The companies alleged that the AI startup had, without their consent, \u201ccopied and stored article content from the servers of Nikkei and Asahi\u201d and ignored a \u201ctechnical measure\u201d created to keep this from happening.<\/p>\n

The companies also claimed that Perplexity\u2019s answers had provided inaccurate information attributed to the newspapers\u2019 articles, which \u201cseverely damages the credibility of newspaper companies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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