Meta AI training is at the centre of a new dispute over whether technology companies can collect online news content and use it to develop artificial intelligence products without negotiating separate licensing agreements. Updated commercial terms from Meta are raising concerns among publishers and legal experts because they appear to grant the company broad permission […]
USA TODAY Co., formerly Gannett, and 13 affiliates have sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court for more than $250 million, saying 19 of their newspapers were copied into ChatGPT’s training data and repackaged in GPT-5.6 summaries. We read the 79-page complaint: the WebText and C4 counts, the three claims, how the damages add up, the internal OpenAI quotes, how it fits the wider publisher fight, and what it means for businesses using AI.
The Seattle Times Company and Newsday LLC sued OpenAI, eight affiliated OpenAI entities and Microsoft Corporation on 4 September 2026 in the Southern District of New York, docketed as No. 1:26-cv-07644. The 38-page complaint pleads seven counts — direct and vicarious copyright infringement, two DMCA claims over stripped copyright management information, and federal, Washington and New York trademark dilution — and asks the court to destroy the training datasets and models built on the plaintiffs’ journalism. This is a working read of the filing: the datasets named, the 88-word Boeing 737 MAX passage a model returned verbatim, the 47% referral traffic collapse behind the harm claim, the $300 million licensing market the plaintiffs were left out of, and where the case sits against the consolidated New York Times litigation that reached summary judgment the same day.
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