In October, Dow Jones filed a lawsuit against the generative AI startup Perplexity. The publisher accused the AI search engine of “a massive amount of illegal copying of publishers’ copyrighted work.” The claim echoed similar accusations by Forbes and the New York Post earlier this year.
Perplexity’s response was swift and dismissive. “[Dow Jones] prefers to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations, and no one can do anything with those publicly reported facts without paying a toll,” the company wrote in a statement. “That is not our view of the world.”
Perplexity’s statement makes it seem that negotiating generative AI licensing rights with hundreds, if not thousands, of news publishers is unduly burdensome. But a research tool owned by Dow Jones has now done just that, by negotiating its own AI licensing agreements, for its own AI search feature.
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