November 04, 2025
Artificial intelligence company Perplexity has urged a Manhattan federal judge to dismiss one of the claims in a copyright lawsuit brought by Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster alleging infringement stemming from AI outputs responding to user inquiries, contending that precedent dictates it could not be held liable for those outputs.
September 10, 2025
Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. and Merriam-Webster Inc. on Wednesday sued Perplexity AI Inc. in New York federal court, alleging that the artificial intelligence-powered search engine startup was engaging in "massive copying" of their copyright-protected content and spitting out verbatim reproductions of their content without permission.