Legal Action Details
A coalition of major Canadian news publishers, including and CBC, has filed a lawsuit against , alleging copyright infringement by scraping news content to train its ChatGPT AI system.
The lawsuit claims OpenAI has unjustly profited from the content without permission or compensation, violating copyright and online terms of use.
Broader Implications and Responses
This legal action marks the first such case in Canada, amidst ongoing lawsuits in the United States, including one by the against OpenAI and .
The plaintiffs seek damages and an injunction to prevent OpenAI from continuing these practices, arguing that OpenAI's use of their content for commercial gain is illegal and misappropriates their intellectual property.