> Reddit is NOT arguing that these companies are illegally scraping Reddit, but rather that they are illegally scraping… Google (which is not a party to the lawsuit) and in doing so violating the DMCA’s anti-circumvention clause, over content Reddit holds no copyright over. And, then, Perplexity is effectively being sued for linking to Reddit.
> Reddit “set a trap” by creating a test post visible only to Google’s crawler, and that it appeared in Perplexity’s results within hours
Are we going to enter an age of "infringement without substantial similarity"?
This seems like trying to suck the air out of the space around a protected expression. Not only you cannot make derivative works, now not even transformative works are going to be allowed?
> Reddit is NOT arguing that these companies are illegally scraping Reddit, but rather that they are illegally scraping… Google (which is not a party to the lawsuit) and in doing so violating the DMCA’s anti-circumvention clause, over content Reddit holds no copyright over. And, then, Perplexity is effectively being sued for linking to Reddit.
This will certainly be an interesting case...
> Reddit “set a trap” by creating a test post visible only to Google’s crawler, and that it appeared in Perplexity’s results within hours
Are we going to enter an age of "infringement without substantial similarity"?
This seems like trying to suck the air out of the space around a protected expression. Not only you cannot make derivative works, now not even transformative works are going to be allowed?
It is so funny seeing people call Ai transformative.
AI itself? unrelated to derivative/transformative split. Depends how you use it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695433 including Perplexity's response