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Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft for Infringement

First seen · 9/7/2026, 07:36 AMLatest activity · 9/7/2026, 07:36 AM

Legal pressure from journalism against foundational AI providers continues to widen. The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that their journalism was incorporated into training corpora without consent and reproduced in model outputs. The action follows earlier suits by The New York Times and nearly 400 regional publications, highlighting ongoing scrutiny over the ingestion of protected media archives.

Event heat · last 24 hours

There are 8 persisted snapshots in the last 24 hours. Peak heat was 10 at 9/12, 14:00; latest heat is 10.

There are 8 persisted snapshots in the last 24 hours. Peak heat was 10 at 9/12, 14:00; latest heat is 10.10509/12, 14:00, event heat 109/12, 17:00, event heat 109/12, 20:00, event heat 109/12, 23:00, event heat 109/13, 02:00, event heat 109/13, 05:00, event heat 109/13, 08:00, event heat 109/13, 11:00, event heat 1024 hours agoNow
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  5. 9/13, 02:00, event heat 10
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  1. MediaThe Verge AI9/7, 07:36 AMRepresentative
    Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft for Infringement