Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over News Content
On September 4, 2026, The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using the newspapers' copyrighted content to train AI models without permission or payment. The publishers also allege that OpenAI diluted their trademarks by generating fabricated content falsely attributed to them. The lawsuit seeks damages and the destruction of AI training datasets containing their work.
- Language it was published in
- vi
- Date it happened
- 2026-09-04
- Organisation involved
- OpenAI
- Product, system or model
- ChatGPT
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