US Local Media Sue Microsoft and OpenAI for Copyright Infringement

Emmerich Newspapers and other US local media groups have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, accusing the tech giants of unauthorized scraping of tens of thousands of copyrighted articles to train AI models.

The plaintiffs allege that the defendants bypassed paywall restrictions and generated billions in profits from the stolen content without compensating publishers. The suit cites violations of the Copyright Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, seeking damages and an injunction to remove infringing training data from the models.

Reported by neowin and translated by IT Home. This case marks a shift as local newspaper chains join the copyright battle, indicating that AI litigation is expanding beyond major national media outlets.