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News publishers launch copyright suit against AI company Anthropic in Ontario
The publishers say Anthropic copied their articles without licences and used them to train Claude, while seeking damages for unjust enrichment.
- On Oct. 6, a coalition of news publishers including Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail, and The Canadian Press filed a lawsuit in Ontario against Anthropic, alleging copyright infringement in training its Claude AI model.
- Anthropic allegedly "scrapes" enormous amounts of text data from the internet to train its services, capitalizing on content without obtaining valid licenses from News Media Companies, the claim says.
- According to the claim, these news outlets "are responsible for generating a significant portion of Canada's journalistic content" and Anthropic breached terms of service and circumvented protection measures to access it.
- Similar publishers launched a 2024 lawsuit against OpenAI alongside CBC and Radio-Canada; those allegations remain unproven in court. Anthropic has not responded to requests for comment on the current filing.
- Publishers are pushing Canada to address how AI systems use copyrighted content, as the national AI strategy failed to resolve these concerns despite criticism from various content creators across industries.
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Total News Sources29
Leaning Left19Leaning Right1Center8Last UpdatedBias Distribution68% Left
Bias Distribution
- 68% of the sources lean Left
68% Left
L 68%
C 28%
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