The new lawsuit goes farther by accusing Google of continuing to "wield its monopoly to coerce PMC into permitting Google to republish PMC's content in AI Overviews" and to use that content "for training and grounding its AI models." Google spokesperson José Castañeda said in a statement that AI Overviews make Google search "more helpful" and create "new opportunities for content to be discovered."
AI search engine Perplexity is facing a new headache amid its fraught relationship with publishers: another copyright lawsuit. The suit is filed on behalf of two of Japan's largest media groups, Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun, and accuses the company of copying and storing article content and ignoring a "technical measure" designed to prevent this from happening. The media groups are seeking damages of ¥2.2bn ($15mn) each.
Chhabria noted that the authors did not provide sufficient evidence showing that Meta's AI would harm their market, hence their arguments were not compelling under US copyright law.
