The Seattle Times Company v. OpenAI Inc.
Summary
The Seattle Times Company and Newsday LLC are suing OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies used their copyrighted news articles without permission to train AI models. The publishers claim OpenAI scraped their journalism—a valuable proprietary asset—to build ChatGPT and related products worth billions, without compensation or consent.
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Coverage vs reality meter
Coverage events: 1P · 0D · 1N (23 articles)
Press coverage leans plaintiff-favorable; no court ruling has been classified yet.
Coverage breakdown — the articles behind the meter
19 plaintiff-favorable · 0 defendant-favorable · 4 neutral articles
The meter counts distinct coverage events, not articles: 1 plaintiff · 0 defendant · 1 neutral events — a burst of same-stance coverage counts once, however many outlets ran it.
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- Seattle Times, Newsday Sue OpenAI, Microsoft Over AI TrainingThe Tech Buzz · 2026-09-05
None classified yet.
Coverage sentiment vs. docket activity over time
Counsel of record
- PRO SENewsday LLC, The Seattle Times Company
- Court
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- Docket no.
- 1:26-cv-07644
- Nature of suit
- Copyright
- Filed
- 2026-09-04
- Last filing
- 2026-09-04
Cause
17:101 Copyright Infringement
Entities in this case
Parties
Microsoft Corporation OpenAI Foundation OpenAI Group PBC OpenAI Holdings, LLC OAI Corporation OpenAI Global LLC OpenAI OpCo, LLC OpenAI LLC OpenAI GP, LLC OpenAI Inc. Newsday LLC The Seattle Times Company