Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)

August 7, 2011 - Japanese newspaper news giant Yomiuri Shimbun filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court today, accusing U.S.-based generative AI search company Perplexity AI of infringing on its copyrights and requesting that the latter pay about 2.168 billion yen (note: the current exchange rate is about 106 million yuan). This is also the first time a major Japanese news organization has sued a generative AI company for unauthorized use of copyrighted material. In its complaint, the Yomiuri Shimbun states that Perplexity AI obtained and copied information from articles in the Yomiuri Shimbun Online...