The BBC has sent a legal threat to Perplexity, citing allegations that the AI startup is scraping the British national broadcaster’s content. In one of its first major copyright interventions in ...

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The BBC has written to Perplexity, which is based in the US, demanding it immediately stops using BBC content, deletes any it holds, and proposes financial compensation for the material it has ...

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to ...

Why Cloudflare is drawing a line against Perplexity’s bots.

UK broadcaster BBC is threatening legal action against AI search engine Perplexity, as it seeks to crack down on tech companies scraping its vast content archives to train artificial intelligence ...

Perplexity said the BBC’s claims were “manipulative and opportunistic” and that it had “a fundamental misunderstanding of technology, the internet and intellectual property law.

Cloudflare is accusing Perplexity of using stealth crawlers to bypass site restrictions, triggering fresh concerns over how ...

In a letter leaked to the Financial Times, the U.K. broadcaster gave Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas an ultimatum: stop hoovering up BBC content, erase whatever's already stored for AI training ...

Internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare accused AI search startup Perplexity on Monday of deploying undeclared “stealth ...

Financial Times / Daniel Thomas and Cristina Criddle / Jun 20, 2025 “The BBC said that parts of its content had been reproduced verbatim by Perplexity, and that links to the BBC website have appeared ...