Five Canadian news media outlets sue OpenAI for copyright breach
Al JazeeraThe case is a part of a wave of lawsuits against OpenAI over data used to train generative AI systems. Five Canadian news media companies have filed a legal action against ChatGPT owner OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company of regularly breaching copyright and online terms of use. In an 84-page statement of claim filed in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice, the five Canadian companies demanded damages from OpenAI and a permanent injunction preventing it from using their material without consent. “Rather than seek to obtain the information legally, OpenAI has elected to brazenly misappropriate the News Media Companies’ valuable intellectual property and convert it for its own uses, including commercial uses, without consent or consideration,” they said in the filing. “The News Media Companies have never received from OpenAI any form of consideration, including payment, in exchange for OpenAI’s use of their Works.” In response, OpenAI said its models were trained on publicly available data, grounded in fair use and related international copyright principles that were fair for creators.