Nearly 400 local newspapers across the United States have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of using their journalism without permission to train artificial intelligence models.
The publishers claim the tech firms “scraped, copied, and ingested” their articles and other copyrighted content without authorization or compensation.
According to the lawsuit, the newspapers argue that their original reporting was used to develop AI systems while they received no payment or licensing agreement in return. The publishers are seeking legal remedies over what they describe as unauthorized use of their copyrighted work.
The case adds to a growing list of copyright lawsuits facing OpenAI. Several major publishers and media organizations have already taken legal action over similar concerns, including The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica. These cases generally argue that copyrighted content was used to train AI models without consent, raising broader questions about copyright, licensing, and the future relationship between AI developers and content creators.
OpenAI and Microsoft have previously said they support AI development that respects creators’ rights and have entered licensing agreements with some publishers. However, legal disputes over whether publicly available online content can be used to train AI systems continue to make their way through courts, with outcomes expected to shape how AI companies access and use copyrighted material in the future.
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