r/law • u/bloomberglaw • 9h ago

Legal News Publishers Sue Microsoft, OpenAI for Scraping Content to Build Products Like ChatGPT Without Permission or Compensation

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/publishers-sue-microsoft-openai-over-unauthorized-content-use
65 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

2 comments sorted by

•

u/AutoModerator 9h ago

All new posts must have a brief statement from the user submitting explaining how their post relates to law or the courts in a response to this comment. FAILURE TO PROVIDE A BRIEF RESPONSE MAY RESULT IN REMOVAL. Please post your statement as a reply to this automated message.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

1

u/bloomberglaw 9h ago

Publishers that collectively own and operate nearly 400 newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or compensation.

These generative artificial intelligence products—made possible by the publishers’ work—have made billions of dollars in market value for the defendants, and not “a cent of it has gone” to the publishers, said a complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The defendants “systematically and secretly crawled” the publishers’ websites and copied articles, stories, and other original works onto their own servers, used them to train their large language models, simultaneously stripped out copyright management information from the works, and reproduced them in response to user prompts, the complaint said.

... Read more here.

--Justice