By Aruni Soni
Publication Date: 2026-03-02 18:07:00
Perplexity AI Inc. asked a federal court to toss claims from two copyright lawsuits major newspapers brought over its AI search engine, saying it can’t be held liable for infringing content in results from users’ prompts.
Artificial intelligence-powered outputs that infringe New York Times Co. or Chicago Tribune Co. copyrights are the result of queries users entered, not “any volitional conduct by Perplexity,” the tech company said in a Feb. 27 dismissal motion filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
“It is this highly atypical, litigation-driven ‘user’ behavior that is the ‘proximate cause’ of …
