Wall Street Journal and New York Post have filed a lawsuit against Perplexity for unauthorized use of content, tarnishing their reputation by misrepresenting content as originating from the publishing houses. Last week, New York Times sent a formal cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity, demanding they stop using the publishers’ content (despite the similar names, New York Times is an independent company while Wall Street Journal and New York Post are under News Corp).
The complaint alleges that Perplexity is unlike traditional search engines that display only partial content. Perplexity’s operations do not provide any benefit to content creators but rather exploit content for profit, sometimes even distributing incorrect content claiming it comes from the publishers. Furthermore, at times the displayed content does not provide any substantial information to users but simply regurgitates text from the original articles.
This lawsuit requests the court to order the removal of all content from the publishers, seek damages of $150,000 per infringement of copyright, and claim triple damages for the harm caused.
Source – Complaint filed by Vox.com, The Verge
TLDR: Wall Street Journal and New York Post sue Perplexity for unauthorized content use and misrepresentation, seeking removal of content, $150,000 per infringement, and triple damages.
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