Seattle Times and Newsday have filed copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that their content was used without permission to train artificial intelligence systems. The publications argue that OpenAI incorporated their news reports into its training data without authorization and that its systems reproduced excerpts from their content in responses. Microsoft is also a defendant because of Copilot, which uses OpenAI technology. The plaintiffs say that chatbots could reduce visits to their websites by providing information directly, potentially causing financial losses for media companies that rely on subscription revenue. On similar grounds, approximately 400 local newspapers had also initiated proceedings against the two companies. The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica are also among the organizations that have sued OpenAI. The disputes center on the conditions for using copyrighted content in training and reproducing it in responses. The rulings could also affect other companies developing large language models.
Background
OpenAI is not a new name in the FikirPilot archive: we have published 23 news reports mentioning the name in the last 90 days; the latest is dated September 7, 2026.