{"id":962329,"date":"2025-09-17T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962329"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:47:43","slug":"britannica-merriam-webster-sue-perplexity-over-copyright-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/17\/britannica-merriam-webster-sue-perplexity-over-copyright-infringement\/","title":{"rendered":"Britannica, Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity over copyright infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity, the artificial intelligence-based search engine, is facing a lawsuit from Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster in a federal court in New York. The case, filed on September 10, alleges that the company copied and misused material from the publishers\u2019 websites. <\/p>\n<p>Allegations of copying and misrepresentation <\/p>\n<p>The complaint states that Perplexity\u2019s platform has been scraping articles and definitions without permission and then presenting them to users as its own. The publishers also claim the startup used their brand names in misleading ways, creating the impression that the results originated from Britannica or Merriam-Webster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity, the artificial intelligence-based search engine, is facing a lawsuit from Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster in a federal court in New York. The case, filed on September 10, alleges that the company copied and misused material from the publishers\u2019 websites. Allegations of copying and misrepresentation The complaint states that Perplexity\u2019s platform has been scraping articles and definitions without permission and then presenting them to users as its own. The publishers also claim the startup used their brand names in misleading ways, creating the impression that the results originated from Britannica or Merriam-Webster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}