TORONTO – Cohere Inc. has failed at getting a U.S. court to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit several media companies filed against the Toronto tech firm.

In a decision she recently rendered, New York judge Colleen McMahon says Cohere’s arguments are without merit and the publishers have made adequate allegations.

Cohere had argued the media companies deliberately used its software to manufacture a case and said it had no reason to believe any real customer has ever used its technology to infringe on publisher copyright.

Publishers including the Toronto Star, Condé Nast and McClatchy had alleged Cohere infringed on their copyright by scraping their articles from the internet without the publishers’ permission or compensation.

The group of publishers that brought the lawsuit earl

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