Two more news organizations allege OpenAI and Microsoft trained AI models on their journalism without permission, deepening the copyright fight with publishers.
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, joining a growing list of publishers alleging their journalism was used to train AI models without authorization or compensation. The filings add to mounting legal pressure on both companies over training data provenance.
Microsoft has pushed back in related litigation, telling courts in a New York Times case that Copilot 'virtually never' reproduces full sentences from news articles or books at a scale that could substitute for the original work.
Every new publisher lawsuit raises the ceiling on potential damages and licensing costs for any company shipping models trained on scraped media. Media and content businesses now have real leverage to negotiate paid licensing deals rather than litigate from scratch.
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