{"id":40958,"date":"2025-08-07T23:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=40958"},"modified":"2025-08-07T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:37:08","slug":"%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e9%a6%96%e6%a1%88%ef%bc%9a%e6%8a%a5%e4%b8%9a%e5%b7%a8%e5%a4%b4%e3%80%8a%e8%af%bb%e5%8d%96%e6%96%b0%e9%97%bb%e3%80%8b%e8%b5%b7%e8%af%89-perplexity-ai-%e4%be%b5%e7%8a%af%e7%89%88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/40958.html","title":{"rendered":"Japan's first case: newspaper giant Yomiuri Shimbun sues Perplexity AI for 2.1 billion yen for copyright infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 7 News.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Japan<\/a>Newspaper news giant The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%af%bb%e5%8d%96%e6%96%b0%e9%97%bb\" title=\"[Sees articles with tags]\" target=\"_blank\" >Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)<\/a>A lawsuit was filed today in the Tokyo District Court against the U.S. generative AI search firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/perplexity\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Perplexity<\/a> AI violates its<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e7%89%88%e6%9d%83\" title=\"[Sees articles containing [copyright] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >copyright<\/a>It also demanded that the latter pay about 2.168 billion yen (note: the current exchange rate is about 106 million yuan).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40959\" title=\"a48634b0j00t0mrco00i1d000v900i8p\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a48634b0j00t0mrco00i1d000v900i8p.jpg\" alt=\"a48634b0j00t0mrco00i1d000v900i8p\" width=\"1125\" height=\"656\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is also<strong>Major Japanese news organization sues generative AI firm for first time over unauthorized use of copyrighted material<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In its complaint, the Yomiuri Shimbun states that Perplexity AI obtained and copied information from the Yomiuri Shimbun Online article and sent the user a response similar to the content of the article, an act that<strong>Infringement of the right of reproduction and public communication under the Copyright Law of Japan<\/strong>.. The Yomiuri Shimbun seeks a court order prohibiting Perplexity AI from copying articles and removing copied content.<\/p>\n<p>The Yomiuri Shimbun also stated that Perplexity AI's service model<strong>Reduced access to Yomiuri Shimbun Online for users of the search function<\/strong>This resulted in a reduction in the advertising revenue available to the Yomiuri Shimbun and infringed the commercial interests of the Yomiuri Shimbun.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 argued that Perplexity AI had obtained and copied information from a Yomiuri Shimbun Online article and sent users responses similar to the article's content, an act that infringed on the right of reproduction and public communication provided for in Japan's copyright law. The Yomiuri Shimbun asked the court to order an injunction against P<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[961,226,1411,7366],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-40958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-perplexity","tag-226","tag-1411","tag-7366"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40958"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=40958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}