The New York Times sues Perplexity for producing ‘verbatim’ copies of its work
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TL;DR
- The New York Times is suing AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement.
- The lawsuit alleges Perplexity produces and profits from content that is verbatim or substantially similar to NYT's work.
- Perplexity is accused of unlawfully crawling, scraping, copying, and distributing NYT content.
- This legal action follows previous cease-and-desist notices sent by the NYT to Perplexity.
- The Chicago Tribune also filed a copyright lawsuit against Perplexity.
- Perplexity previously faced scrutiny for skirting website paywalls.
- The NYT seeks damages and a permanent injunction against Perplexity.
- Perplexity's spokesperson stated that publishers have historically sued new tech companies without success.