Eight US Newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, accusing the companies of illegally using news stories to train their popular AI technologies.
The suit, filed April 30 in the Southern District of New York, accuses of OpenAI and Microsoft of, “purloining millions of the Publishers’ copyrighted articles without permission and without payment.”
The suit is filed on behalf of newspapers including The Chicago Tribune, The New York Daily News, Orlando Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Denver Post and Orange County Register.
Read more
- Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement (Axios)
- Eight newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement (NPR)
Flashback
- The Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft over A.I. use of copyrighted work (NYT)
- OpenAI claims New York Times copyright lawsuit is without merit (TechCrunch)
- Does ChatGPT violate New York Times’ copyrights? (Harvard Law School)
Case details
Case number: 1:24-cv-03285
Filed: April 30
Where: Southern District of New York
Read: At CourtListener