About this tag
The local news tag on WindowsForum.com covers the intersection of generative AI and local journalism, focusing on legal and economic challenges. Recent threads detail a June 2026 federal lawsuit by nearly 400 local newspapers against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted articles to train ChatGPT and Copilot. Other discussions examine how AI news summaries from tools like Copilot systematically underrepresent local and regional outlets, favoring large national and international sources, which threatens referral traffic and the viability of local reporting. A thread on CMS governance highlights metadata and automation issues in newsrooms. These topics are relevant to Windows users and IT professionals as they consider the data supply chain behind AI features in Microsoft products.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Local Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over Copyrighted Journalism in Copilot

    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...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Local News Publishers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over Copilot ChatGPT Training Copying

    Publishers owning nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft on June 24, 2026, in the Southern District of New York, alleging the companies copied protected news articles without permission to train and operate products including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. The case is...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    Local Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over Copilot Copyright Copying

    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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    • ai copyright ai copyright lawsuits copilot copilot strategy copyright lawsuits dmca dmca claim dmca claims dmca lawsuit enterprise it fair use generative ai local journalism local news microsoft copilot microsoft openai lawsuit openai openai lawsuit windows governance windows it windows users
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    • Forum: Windows News
  4. WindowsForum AI

    AI News Answers Bias Threatens Local Journalism

    AI-driven answers are now being flagged for citing a very narrow set of headline news sources — a trend that threatens local journalism, distorts public debate, and concentrates editorial power in the hands of a few highly visible outlets. Background / Overview The recent debate began to...
  5. WindowsForum AI

    AI News Summaries Skew Global, Threatening Australian Local Journalism

    A new University of Sydney study warns that AI-driven news summaries are quietly reshaping how Australians encounter current affairs — and not in ways that favour local journalism. The paper, led by Dr Timothy Koskie of the Centre for AI, Trust and Governance, finds that Microsoft’s Copilot...
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    • ai journalism ai monetization ai news ethics australian journalism azure cloud copilot pricing local news media licensing news media policy news provenance openai partnership
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows News
  6. WindowsForum AI

    AI News Summaries Undermine Local Australian Journalism

    A newly published study from the University of Sydney raises a stark warning: AI-driven news summaries are systematically sidelining Australian journalism, amplifying global outlets while erasing local journalists, regional context, and the economic pathways that sustain independent newsrooms...
  7. WindowsForum AI

    Sydney Study Finds Copilot News Briefs Under Represent Australian Local Media

    A new University of Sydney analysis shows Microsoft Copilot’s AI‑generated news summaries systematically under‑represent Australian local and independent media, favoring large national and international outlets instead — a pattern that risks diverting referral traffic, eroding byline visibility...
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    • adoption trends ai ethics ai governance ai risk compliance algorithmic bias artificial intelligence australian journalism australian media policy construction analytics enterprise it florida real estate ai local journalism local news media policy news media bargaining os migration proptech governance provenance windows 11
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows News
  8. WindowsForum AI

    Preventing Content Bleed: CMS Governance & Metadata on Windows Newsrooms

    A seemingly ordinary sports photo page titled “Falcons Cowboys Football” paired with an obituary excerpt for Odessa Dillard Foddrell, 84, who died on August 12, 2025 in Conover, North Carolina, reads like a glitch in the matrix—but it’s also a snapshot of how fragile modern, template-driven news...
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    • accessibility cms governance content governance core web vitals data integrity data quality iis image optimization local news obituary observability security seo sports gallery structured data taxonomy template hygiene windows server workflow
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  9. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 11 Game Day: Optimize Edge for Smooth Sports Streaming

    A small local-news photo page showing a Jaguars–Saints football moment—paired with a Bluefield, West Virginia forecast calling for mid‑70s highs, rising rain chances through the afternoon, and a cooler, showery evening—captures a bigger reality of game day in 2025: fans jump between highlights...
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    • av1 codec battery life codec drm efficiency mode h.264 hdr calibration hevc jaguars-saints live update local news microsoft edge multitasking privacy sleeping tabs sports streaming streaming optimization video playback weather widget windows 11
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    • Forum: Windows News
  10. WindowsForum AI

    Patriots vs Commanders: Photo Metadata & Licensing in Sports Media

    Photographs from the Patriots–Commanders matchup that appeared across regional outlets this week underscore a familiar truth: in modern sports coverage, a single image is equal parts journalism, metadata package, and a potential legal — or privacy — landmine for anyone who downloads, edits, or...
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    • commanders copyright exif exiftool foxborough gps image licensing image rights iptc licensing local news metadata newsrooms patriot preseason privacy sports photography windows workflow wire images xmp
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  11. whoosh

    NEWS Spirit of Tasmania IV ferry enters second month of storage at Leith, Scotland

    The newly built Spirit of Tasmania IV will continue to be stored in a Scottish port for at least another month. The Tasmanian government made the announcement in its regular update of the Spirit of Tasmania ferry replacement project. Scottish mothballing of Tasmanian ferry continues :razz:
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    • australian ferries ferry replacement project ferry storage local news maritime mothballed ferry scotland port spirit of tasmania iv tasmanian government transport policy
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  12. whoosh

    VIDEO Pittsburgh bridge collapses with no major injuries reported I ABCNL

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    • bridge collapse local news pittsburgh youtube video
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  13. whoosh

    VIDEO Whole street swallowed up by GIANT sink hole in Manchester

    :eek:
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    • local news manchester sinkholes street collapse
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  14. docweathers

    Windows 10 news website videos stall but YouTube work fine.

    I have a six-month-old Dell laptop and a 10-year-old Dell desktop. Everything works just fine on the laptop. But on the desktop, both local and national news station videos will not download without pauses, though YouTube and similar ones work fine. I have the same 5G Internet on both...
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    • brave bugs chrome dell desktop edge internet kaspersky laptop local news national news performance speed test streaming update video windows 10 youtube video
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  15. whoosh

    VIDEO Theft and unrest spreads to southern Italy

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  16. R

    Video Commercials

    Anyone know how to stop these video's from running. A local news station runs a commercial on every story they report. Once is enough. But I would like to eliminate them entirely.
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    • advertising browser commercial installation local news media settings streaming video video playback
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  17. whoosh

    VIDEO Local News Outlets Forced To Air Pro-Trump Propaganda

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    • local news media bias propaganda trump coverage
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  18. ragnarok1968

    NEWS Lake Oroville Situation

    I have my dad and grandson who live in the Chico Area just a bit north of Oroville. The sad: the spillway is Earth, so a portion of the dam is Earth with no concrete support. the concrete portion is in no danger. they are experiencing very noticeable erosion. Live news feed (KRCR TV out of...
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    • butte county chico area community safety dam safety disaster recovery emergency news environmental issues erosion flood management flooding highway highway 99 infrastructure lake oroville local news public safety road closures spillway traffic update travel advisory
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  19. reghakr

    Meet The Guy Spending 10 Days In Jail For Overdue Library Books

    The Iowa man, 28, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 days in jail for failing to return books and other items he checked out earlier this year from the local library. Read Full Story: Meet The Guy Spending 10 Days In Jail For Overdue Library Books | The Smoking Gun
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    • book iowa jail justice legal issues libraries local news overdue public library sentence
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  20. reghakr

    Rancher does own road work, sends Pima County the bill

    Andy Smallhouse earlier this summer turned left at Frustrated, went right on through to Fed Up and kept going until he landed on Doing Something About It. Read Full Story: Rancher does own road work, sends Pima County the bill
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    • bill community action county services frustration government local news pima county politics rancher roadwork
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler