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Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster v. Perplexity: complaint filed

Complaint filed; allegations not adjudicated.

Dated 10 Sep 2025Source checked 10 Sep 2025Page out of reach at the last check, 17 Oct 2026Basis: stated

In the source's own words
“First, Perplexity infringes Plaintiffs’ copyrights at the curation stage when it uses a software program called “PerplexityBot” to crawl and scrape Plaintiffs’ websites for Perplexity’s “answer engine.””
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