CNN Sues AI Company Perplexity for Copyright Infringement Over Content Scraping
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Summary
CNN has filed a lawsuit against AI company Perplexity, accusing it of copyright and trademark infringement by scraping over 17,000 CNN stories, photos, and videos without consent to train its AI products. The case, filed in the Southern District of New York, marks CNN's first legal action against an AI company over copyright protection and is believed to be the first such litigation by a TV network, adding to the growing wave of media companies taking legal action against AI firms over unauthorized use of content.
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· 3 pulledCNN has sued Perplexity, alleging the AI company infringed the news network's copyrights and trademarks by illegally copying and distributing content without its consent.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, accused Perplexity of scraping more than 17,000 CNN stories, photos, videos and other content and using that to train its products.
The complaint is the network's first legal case against an AI company seeking to protect its copyrights — and is believed to the first litigation in this area by a TV network
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