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CNN files lawsuit against Perplexity alleging unlawful content distribution
CNN says Perplexity copied and distributed its content without permission after licensing talks failed, joining a growing wave of publisher lawsuits against AI firms.
- On Thursday, CNN filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, accusing Perplexity of unlawfully scraping more than 17,000 stories, photos, videos and other content to train its products.
- Licensing negotiations between CNN and Perplexity collapsed last year over unresolved terms; after talks failed, the network blocked Perplexity's scraping bot from accessing its content.
- In the 54-page complaint, CNN alleges Perplexity falsely advertised that users could skip "extra steps and clicks" to access news and falsely promoted its Comet Plus tier as providing CNN's premium content.
- As the first television network to file an AI copyright lawsuit, CNN joins publishers like The New York Times in seeking statutory damages and a court order barring Perplexity from using its content.
- Since ChatGPT's 2022 launch, publishers have pursued divergent strategies: News Corp, The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune sued Perplexity, while Gannett, TIME and Le Monde signed licensing deals with the company.
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The legal fight between news publishers and AI companies just got bigger. CNN filed a lawsuit against Perplexity on Thursday in federal court in New York, accusing the AI search startup of copying and redistributing its copyrighted reporting without permission. […] The post Perplexity sued by CNN over alleged AI-powered content scraping first appeared on Tech Startups.
CNN files lawsuit against Perplexity AI over alleged copyright infringement of CNN's content
CNN has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, accusing the artificial intelligence startup of copyright infringement for allegedly using CNN's content without authorization. The lawsuit, filed in...
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right2Center6Last UpdatedBias Distribution55% Center
Bias Distribution
- 55% of the sources are Center
55% Center
L 27%
C 55%
R 18%
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