Posted Jun 24, 2026 at 10:12 PM UTCEExternal LinkNearly 400 local newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft.The coalition of publishers alleges OpenAI and Microsoft “scraped, copied, and ingested” their work without permission or compensation to train their AI models. This latest legal battle adds to the string of copyright lawsuits OpenAI is facing from publishers like The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Emma Roth
Nearly 400 local newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft.
The coalition of publishers alleges OpenAI and Microsoft “scraped, copied, and ingested” their work without permission or compensation to train their AI models. This latest legal battle adds to the string of copyright lawsuits OpenAI is facing from publishers like The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica. [Link: OpenAI, Microsoft Sued by Publishers for Scraping News Articles | https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/publishers-sue-microsoft-openai-over-unauthorized-content-use | Bloomberg Law]
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