Yomiuri Shimbun Sues AI Startup Perplexity for Copyright Infringement
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Summary
Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, has filed a lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging unauthorized scraping and reproduction of its articles. The case, filed in Tokyo District Court, is the first such legal challenge by a major Japanese news publisher against an AI company.
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Yomiuri alleges the scraping has been used by Perplexity to reproduce the newspaper’s copyrighted articles in responses to user queries without authorization.
The filing claims that Perplexity accessed 119,467 articles on Yomiuri’s site between February and June of this year, based on an analysis of its company server logs.
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