Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement
The newspapers say the companies’ AI models copied articles verbatim and cut traffic, with search referrals to midsize publishers down 47%, filings said.
- On Friday, Microsoft and news organizations including The Seattle Times and Newsday filed dueling summary judgment motions before Manhattan Federal Judge Sidney Stein, asking him to resolve core copyright issues before trial.
- News organizations allege that Microsoft and OpenAI infringe on copyrights by ingesting their journalism to train large language models, arguing this "wholesale taking" threatens their business by competing directly with human-produced reporting.
- Microsoft argues its Copilot AI rarely reproduces copyrighted content, citing an analysis of 8.2 million conversations where only 24 responses contained matching passages, maintaining that training on human journalism constitutes "fair use."
- The Justice Department sided with the tech companies in a Tuesday filing, arguing that AI development is a matter of national interest and that restricting copyright use could stifle "scientific progress while hindering American prosperity and economic mobility."
- Publishers seek court orders for the "impoundment and/or destruction" of AI models and training data sets, while also urging the court to unseal redacted motions regarding admissions by Microsoft executives in coming weeks.
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The Seatle Times and Newsday have accused OpenAI and Microsoft of illegal use of journalistic material for AI.
US newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement
The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the newspapers’ journalism without permission to train their AI systems. The suit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft scraped the newspapers’ websites, including content behind […]
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Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement
(Corrects bullet point 4 to "a", not "an" spokesperson)Sept 4 : The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the newspapers' journalism without permission to train their AI systems.• The suit in the U.S. District Court fo
Tribune, New York Times want ‘fair use’ argument rejected in copyright case against OpenAI, Microsoft
A Manhattan judge overseeing a major copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI received dueling summary judgment motions Friday, with news organizations including the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times calling on the court to reject a key pillar of the tech behemoths’ defense to the claim that they are pirating original reporting.
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