USA Today Joins Growing Legal Battle Against OpenAI Over Copyright
USA Today has become the latest major publisher to take legal action against OpenAI over copyright concerns. The newspaper group has filed claims in the US courts, alleging that OpenAI used copyrighted content without authorization to train its AI models.
This filing adds to a growing list of media companies and copyright holders that have pursued legal remedies against AI companies. The core of these disputes typically centers on whether using copyrighted texts to train large language models constitutes infringement, and what compensation—if any—publishers deserve when their content contributes to AI-generated output.
The outcome of these cases could establish important precedents for how AI companies source their training data and whether they need to secure licenses or compensate rights holders going forward.