Issue No. 050 · Story 02 · September 7, 2026

Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft

The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a New York federal lawsuit alleging that OpenAI and Microsoft copied their journalism to train artificial intelligence systems and reproduced material in chatbot responses.

§The complaint accuses the defendants of using articles without permission as training material.
§The publishers also allege that chatbot responses can reproduce passages from their reporting.
§Microsoft is named because Copilot uses OpenAI technology.
§The requested relief includes destruction of copies, training datasets, and models incorporating the asserted works.

THE TAKEAWAY

The complaint adds recognizable regional publishers to the growing group testing copyright theories against generative AI companies. Its requested relief also puts model destruction and the treatment of incorporated works directly at issue.

Source: TechCrunch

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