Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over Copyright Infringement
Summary
Seattle Times and Newsday filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, alleging the companies used hundreds of thousands of their articles to train AI models without permission or compensation. The newspapers claim the AI systems can reproduce near-verbatim excerpts, including an 88-word passage from Seattle Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning Boeing 737 MAX coverage. They seek monetary damages and destruction of infringing datasets and models. This follows a June 2026 coalition lawsuit by roughly 400 local newspapers and the New York Times' December 2023 suit, adding two more prominent plaintiffs to the legal pressure on OpenAI. Microsoft expressed surprise at being sued by a newspaper in its own backyard and remains open to dialogue. The case adds to OpenAI's mounting legal and regulatory challenges, including recent safety incidents and government restrictions on its GPT-5.6 model.
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