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AI Search Copyright: The Lawsuits Closing In on Perplexity
AI search engines are facing a wave of copyright litigation. The New York Times and CNN have sued Perplexity over scraping and verbatim reproduction, including paywalled content its Comet browser reads past client-side walls. The .5B Bartz v. Anthropic settlement showed piracy carries huge consequences, and Perplexity's Comet Plus revenue-share program concedes that web content was never free.
By Aisha Patel · 6 min · Jun 14, 2026
Reddit v. Perplexity: The Scraping Lawsuit That Could Reshape AI
Reddit sued Perplexity and three scraping firms (Oxylabs, SerpApi, AWMProxy) in October 2025, alleging they bypassed access controls to harvest Reddit content from Google search results. Crucially, Reddit leans on the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision (17 U.S.C. 1201) rather than copyright, sidestepping fair-use defenses. A win could force platforms industry-wide to wall off user content and pursue licensing.
By Aisha Patel · 5 min · Jun 10, 2026