News Corp, the parent company of media outlets including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post, is suing AI search engine Perplexity for infringing copyrighted content. copyright. In a lawsuit filed on Monday (21), the News Corp claims that Perplexity copies news articles, analyses and opinions “on a large scale”.
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Perplexity is an AI startup that trains its AI search models using content from across the web, allowing it to answer user queries with a summary of their sources. As described in the lawsuit, Perplexity advertises itself as a platform that allows users to “skip links” to online articles, which News Corp says takes “critical customers and revenue away from these copyright holders.”
News Corp also claims that Perplexity may falsely attribute facts and analysis to the company's outlets., “sometimes citing an incorrect source and other times simply making up and attributing false stories to the company.” The lawsuit claims that News Corp sent a letter to Perplexity about its “unauthorized” use of its content in July, but Perplexity “did not bother to respond.”
In recent weeks, media outlets including Wired and Forbes have accused Perplexity of scraping content without permission, circumventing paywalls and even plagiarizing written works. Last week, The New York Times, which is also suing OpenAI, sent a cease and desist letter to Perplexity asking it to stop using its content. Perplexity has begun paying some publishers for its content, including Time and Fortune.
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News Corp is asking the court to force Perpelxity to stop using its content without permission and to destroy any database containing its works..
“Perplexity perpetrates an abuse of intellectual property that harms journalists, writers, publishers and News Corp,” he said. Robert thomson, CEO of News Corp, in a statement. “The perplexing Perplexity has intentionally copied large amounts of copyrighted material without compensation and blatantly presents repurposed material as a direct replacement for the original source.”
Thomson also said he applauds “principled” companies like OpenAI, which have struck deals with several outlets, including News Corp, in exchange for using their work to train AI.
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