Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Micros...
By Nitin Anand · September 06, 2026
Seattle Times and Newsday just sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement — the fourth and fifth major newspaper plaintiffs this year.
The complaint names specific models, cites verbatim reproduction of paywalled content, and alleges systematic scraping without consent or compensation.
This isn't a one-off grievance. It's a coordinated legal strategy by legacy publishers testing whether foundation-model training counts as fair use — and whether the economics of content creation can survive the diffusion of attribution.
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