Publishers of Nearly 400 Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Content Scraping
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Mary Anne Pazanowski, Nino Paoli
Summary
A coalition of publishers owning nearly 400 newspapers has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies illegally scraped their copyrighted content to build generative AI products like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or compensation. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, claims the defendants have generated billions in market value from the publishers' work while paying nothing in return, and that they "systematically and secretly crawled" the publishers' content.
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Twitter / XPublishers of Nearly 400 Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Content Scrapingnews.bloomberglaw.comKey quotes
· 2 pulledNot 'a cent of it has gone' to the publishers
The defendants 'systematically and secretly crawled' the publisher
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