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Perplexity lawsuits and enforcement actions

8 cases · 8 active · next date Dec 14, 2026

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CopyrightActiveDec 14 · in 35dDow Jones sued v. PerplexityThe Wall Street Journal and New York Post publishers say Perplexity copies their articles to answer questions.Telephone conferenceS.D. N.Y.filed Oct 2024Trade secretsActiveUnverifiedfiled Jul 2026Sues sued v. Perplexity AI, Inc.Sued under the Defend Trade Secrets Act.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled May 2026CNN sued v. PerplexityCNN alleges Perplexity copies its news content without permission to power its answer engine.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Dec 2025New York Times sued v. PerplexityThe New York Times alleges Perplexity copies and repackages its journalism in AI answers and attributes fabricated content to the paper.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Dec 2025Chicago Tribune sued v. PerplexityThe Chicago Tribune alleges Perplexity copies its articles, including paywalled content, to generate answers that substitute for its journalism.S.D. N.Y.ContractOn appealfiled Nov 2025Amazon sued v. PerplexityAmazon alleges Perplexity's Comet browser agent covertly accesses customer Amazon accounts and shops while disguised as a human user, in violation of computer fraud laws.N.D. Cal.ContractActivefiled Oct 2025Reddit sued v. SerpApi and PerplexityReddit alleges SerpApi, Oxylabs and AWMProxy scraped Reddit content from Google results at industrial scale and that Perplexity bought the data for its answer engine.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Sep 2025Encyclopaedia Britannica sued v. PerplexityBritannica and Merriam-Webster allege Perplexity scrapes and copies their reference content and misattributes AI answers to them.S.D. N.Y.
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