Nearly 400 local and regional newspapers, including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and WEHCO Newspapers Inc., joined a federal lawsuit filed June 24, 2026, in the Southern District of New York accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of using copyrighted journalism to train and operate ChatGPT and Microsoft...
On June 24, 2026, thirty-five U.S. local and regional newspaper publishers sued Microsoft and multiple OpenAI entities in the Southern District of New York, alleging that ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot were built partly on copyrighted articles scraped from nearly 400 outlets without permission or...
Nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in New York on June 24, 2026, alleging that the companies copied millions of copyrighted articles to build and operate products including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or payment. The suit...
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