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Japan's Yomiuri newspaper sues Perplexity over free-riding, seeks injunction, damages

By Toko Sekiguchi ( August 8, 2025, 07:03 GMT | Insight) -- Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI for copyright infringement, becoming the first major Japanese media organization to take the generative artificial intelligence company to court over unlicensed use of online news content.Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, filed suit against US-based Perplexity AI, seeking an injunction and damages for unauthorized use of its articles in the company’s generative AI search service. The filing marks the first known lawsuit by a major Japanese news organization against an artificial intelligence company over unlicensed use of online news content....

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