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"Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, one of the world's biggest by circulation, is suing U.S.-based AI firm Perplexity for allegedly "free-riding" on its content on its search engine.
The lawsuit filed Thursday is one of a slew by media companies worldwide against AI firms using their material and is the first by a major Japanese news organization, Yomiuri said.
It accuses Perplexity of "free-riding on the results of the activities of news organizations, which have invested a great deal of effort and expense."
A spokesman for the paper added that this "could have a negative impact on accurate journalism ... and shake the foundations of democracy."
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After a lawsuit by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post in October, Perplexity criticized the "adversarial posture" of many media as "shortsighted, unnecessary, and self-defeating."
They "prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations, and no one can do anything with those publicly reported facts without paying a toll," it said.
"We should all be working together to offer people amazing new tools and build genuinely pie-expanding businesses.""
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/08/japan/crime-legal/yomiuri-sues-free-riding-ai-firm/
