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Coverage· Unknown· Published Sep 7, 2026

The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged infringement

The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that their journalism was used without permission for AI training and outputs. The publishers seek destruction of related works, training datasets, and models.

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The publishers allege that OpenAI used their reporting as model-training data without permission and often reproduces passages in response to user queries. Microsoft is named because Copilot is built on OpenAI technology; neither company had immediately responded to a request for comment when the article was published.

Why It Matters

The case targets not only copies of published work but also training datasets and AI models that incorporate it, raising the stakes for how news publishers and AI companies handle training data and generated excerpts. It follows a recent lawsuit by nearly 400 local newspapers against OpenAI and Microsoft, as reported in the current article.

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  • The VergeDocumentOriginal

    Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement

    Terrence O’Brien

    “The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages from their reporting in response to user queries. This is similar to lawsuits filed by [...]”
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