When Dow Jones sued Perplexity for failing to properly license its content, Perplexity replied, "[Dow Jones] prefers to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations, and no one can do anything with those publicly reported facts without paying a toll." Now let's suppose that what Perplexity said is true, that is, that the content under question really consists of "publicly reported facts". What does that say now that Dow Jones has its own AI engine, Factiva, and has negotiated licenses with news publishers? To me, it says precisely that Dow Jones thinks that it now owns exclusive rights (or, at least, rights) to publicly reported facts. But that's now how it's supposed to work, right? Nobody owns (say) the fact that there was an earthquake off California today, no matter how someone (or some thing) learned of that fact. Can you imagine a university having to license the facts it teaches in its classes?
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