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Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement
The newspapers say the companies copied articles behind paywalls and generated verbatim passages, seeking damages and destruction of training datasets and models.
- On Friday, Microsoft and news organizations including The Seattle Times and Newsday filed dueling summary judgment motions before Manhattan Federal Judge Sidney Stein, asking him to resolve core copyright issues before trial.
- News organizations allege that Microsoft and OpenAI infringe on copyrights by ingesting their journalism to train large language models, arguing this "wholesale taking" threatens their business by competing directly with human-produced reporting.
- Microsoft argues its Copilot AI rarely reproduces copyrighted content, citing an analysis of 8.2 million conversations where only 24 responses contained matching passages, maintaining that training on human journalism constitutes "fair use."
- The Justice Department sided with the tech companies in a Tuesday filing, arguing that AI development is a matter of national interest and that restricting copyright use could stifle "scientific progress while hindering American prosperity and economic mobility."
- Publishers seek court orders for the "impoundment and/or destruction" of AI models and training data sets, while also urging the court to unseal redacted motions regarding admissions by Microsoft executives in coming weeks.
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Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the newspapers’ journalism without permission to train their AI systems.
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U.S. Government Backs OpenAI in Landmark NYT Copyright Fight
The federal government has thrown its weight behind OpenAI and Microsoft. In a filing that marks the first major intervention by the Justice Department in the swelling wave of artificial intelligence copyright disputes, officials told a Manhattan judge that training large language models on news articles qualifies as fair use. This came just days before dueling summary judgment motions landed in the same courtroom. The New York Times, joined by …
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