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Perplexity AI says it shouldn’t be liable for users' copyright infringement

By Emma Whitford ( November 4, 2025, 19:21 GMT | Insight) -- Perplexity AI should not face a direct copyright infringement claim based on its users' alleged querying for information from Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster, the artificial intelligence platform said, urging a New York federal court to dismiss the encyclopedia and dictionary publishers’ output-based claim against it. Perplexity AI should not face a direct copyright infringement claim based on its users' alleged querying for information from Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster, the artificial intelligence platform said, urging a New York federal court to dismiss the encyclopedia and dictionary publishers’ output-based claim against it....

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