Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over Alleged Copyright Infringement
Source Summary
The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies used their journalism as training data for AI models without permission and reproduced passages from their reporting in user responses. The suit names Microsoft as a defendant because Copilot is built on OpenAI's technology. This lawsuit joins similar cases filed by The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as nearly 400 local newspapers.
Why it matters
This lawsuit represents an escalating legal challenge to AI companies' use of copyrighted content in training data, with major news publishers and hundreds of local newspapers now seeking accountability for unauthorized use of their journalism.
