"Perplexity, which was last valued at $20 billion, said in a motion filed February 24 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York that Dow Jones "cherry-picked" responses from Perplexity's internet search engine to support its copyright lawsuit. News Corp.'s Dow Jones and the New York Post sued the startup in 2024, alleging that it copied their content without permission or compensation to feed its search engine."
"The dispute marks the latest escalation in the legal battles between AI companies and traditional publishers over who owns and profits from the internet's content. At stake is whether AI search engines like Perplexity's can legally ingest and summarize paywalled reporting without compensating the content owner."
"In its latest filing, Perplexity claims that Dow Jones users effectively badgered the search engine to reproduce paywalled articles, and that the publishers are not complying with document requests because doing so would expose an "inconvenient truth.""
Perplexity, valued at $20 billion, filed a motion in federal court against Dow Jones and the New York Post, arguing the publishers cherry-picked responses from its search engine to support their copyright lawsuit. Dow Jones sued Perplexity in 2024, alleging the AI startup copied their content without permission to feed its search engine. Perplexity's tool provides direct answers from trusted webpages rather than link lists. The dispute represents a broader legal conflict between AI companies and traditional publishers over content ownership and compensation. Perplexity claims Dow Jones users requested paywalled article reproduction and that publishers refuse document requests to hide this inconvenient truth.
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