AI search outfit Perplexity has been hit with yet another copyright lawsuit, this time courtesy of Japan's Nikkei and Asahi media companies.

Nikkei and Asahi filed their joint suit on Tuesday in Tokyo District Court, claiming that the Google challenger unlawfully scraped their articles and repeatedly served up the content in response to user queries.

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They allege Perplexity ignored their robots.txt files to do so, echoing accusations leveled against the company earlier this month by Cloudflare. On that occasion, Perplexity insisted that overriding such crawler-blocking preferences was acceptable as long as the user is directing the search query that triggers the information retrieval.

The company has not yet responded

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