The copyright lawsuits against AI companies in the U.S. just hit 34 today
Dow Jones & Co., owner of the Wall Street Journal, and NYP Holdins, owner of New York Post, sued the AI search company Perplexity for copyright infringement. (Both companies are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which struck a licensing deal with OpenAI to use of News Corp. content for AI training.)
Notably, Dow Jones is represented by William Barr, former U.S. Attorney General under the Trump Administration, and Paul Cappucio, who worked with Barr as an Associate Deputy Attorney General during the George H.W. Bush Administration. Justin Romeo, formerly Chief Counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and Genevieve Kelly, formerly as Associate Deputy Director for Enforcement at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. They now all work for Torridon Law.