"The lawsuit, filed in a New York federal court on Friday, claims Perplexity "unlawfully crawls, scrapes, copies, and distributes" content from the NYT. It comes after the outlet's repeated demands for Perplexity to stop using content from its website, as the NYT sent cease-and-desist notices to the AI startup last year and most recently in July, according to the lawsuit. The Chicago Tribune also filed a copyright lawsuit against Perplexity on Thursday."
"Perplexity became the subject of several lawsuits after reporting from Forbes and Wired revealed that the startup had been skirting websites' paywalls to provide AI-generated summaries - and in some cases, copies - of their work. The NYT makes similar accusations in its lawsuit, stating that Perplexity's crawlers "have intentionally ignored or evaded technical content protection measures," such as the robots.txt file, which indicates the parts of a website crawlers can access."
The New York Times filed a federal lawsuit accusing Perplexity of unlawfully crawling, scraping, copying and distributing Times content and producing answers that are verbatim or substantially similar to its work. The suit says NYT repeatedly demanded Perplexity stop, issued cease-and-desist notices last year and in July, and alleges Perplexity evaded technical protections like robots.txt. Reporting from Forbes and Wired is cited that the startup skirted paywalls to generate summaries or copies. The NYT asserts the conduct misappropriates subscription, advertising, licensing and affiliate revenue and seeks damages plus a permanent injunction. Perplexity did not immediately respond.
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