Filings made Friday in The New York Times’s closely watched lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft included a range of copyright law and cultural references.
Judge allows 'New York Times' copyright case against OpenAI to go forward
The legal fight could have far-reaching implications for the media and artificial intelligence industries.
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
The lawsuit says ChatGPT “recites Times content verbatim.”
Major Canadian News Outlets Sue OpenAI in New Copyright Case (Published 2024)
A coalition of some of Canada’s biggest media companies is seeking billions of dollars in compensation for what they say is copyright infringement on their work through ChatGPT.
The NY Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI Would Open Up The NY Times To All Sorts Of Lawsuits Should It Win
This week the NY Times somehow broke the story of… well, the NY Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft. I wonder who tipped them off. Anyhoo, the lawsuit in many ways is similar to some of the over a doz…
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI.
Lawsuit by Canadian news publishers against OpenAI gets green light to proceed in Ontario | CBC News
An Ontario court has decided a copyright lawsuit filed by Canadian news publishers against OpenAI will proceed in that province.
The Wikimedia Foundation files to protect open knowledge in New York Times v OpenAI case – Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation filed an amicus brief in the OpenAI copyright case, urging the court to protect Wikipedia and the open knowledge ecosystem.
Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying
Meta is accused of ripping copyrighted works from piracy websites.
Paywall violation ‘eviscerates’ fair use defense: What OpenAI-NYT twist means for publishers
The unsealed material could set a precedent that fuels more lawsuits against AI firms and strengthens publishers hand in licensing talks.
Exhibit Public Redacted Memorandum of Law – #1587, Att. #1 in The New York Times Company v. Microsoft Corporation (S.D.N.Y., 1:23-cv-11195) – CourtListener.com
LETTER addressed to Judge Sidney H. Stein from Davida Brook dated September 17, 2026 re: Public, Redacted Version of News' Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law. Document filed by Daily News LP, The Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc., The Intercept Media, Inc., The New York Times Company, Ziff Davis, LLC. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Public Redacted Memorandum of Law)Filed In Associated Cases: 1:25-md-03143-SHS-OTW et al..(Brook, Davida) (Entered: 09/17/2026)
A Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘theft of unprecedented proportions.’
In court documents unredacted Thursday, lawyers for the NYT in its copyright infringement case against Microsoft and OpenAI cited Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht, saying that “millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions… almost no one intended for content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they compensated for its use.” The Orlando Sentinel, which is also part of the suit, reports a Microsoft filing “framed Hecht as someone on the payroll to play a contrarian.”
Elsevier vs Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers
Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class-action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.
Elsevier vs Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers
Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class-action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.
Music Publishers Sue AI Company Anthropic for Copyright Infringement
Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord, and ABKCO claim that the large language model Claud was trained on copyrighted works
Anthropic sued by authors over alleged misuse of copyrighted works for AI training
The complaint alleges that Anthropic used pirated versions of books by hundreds of thousands of authors to develop its AI models without proper authorization or compensation.
Apple files lawsuit accusing ChatGPT maker OpenAI of stealing trade secrets
Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing trade secrets as it seeks to build its own hardware for ChatGPT.