{"rewrite":{"id":"r_e94a7b7382fa3c8677b89751","clusterId":"c_296491fc8c27deafd99f0355","slug":"newspaper-company-sues-openai-and-microsoft-over-article-scraping","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Newspaper Company Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over Article Scraping","summary":"A newspaper company that owns approximately 400 local and regional newspapers filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on June 24, 2026, alleging unauthorized scraping of articles to train AI models like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. The plaintiffs seek damages and injunctive relief, arguing the AI boom threatens local journalism unless companies are held accountable.","whyItMatters":"This lawsuit represents the largest coordinated legal action by local newspapers against AI companies, aiming to bring smaller publishers to the negotiating table where earlier suits by national outlets did not.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe complaint, filed June 24, claims OpenAI and Microsoft scraped content from the plaintiffs\u0026#39; websites without permission or compensation, using it to train large language models. The plaintiffs\u0026#39; attorney, Matthew Platkin of the Platkin Law Firm, said the suit is the largest-scale legal effort led by local and regional newspapers. The plaintiffs argue that while generative AI has generated tens of billions in market value, none of that money has reached the content creators. They also allege the defendants circumvented paywalls to access articles. OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri said the company\u0026#39;s models are trained on publicly available data under fair use principles. Microsoft did not comment.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"The suit names Microsoft as a co-defendant, which ties Copilot directly to the same scraping allegations that have dogged ChatGPT. That pairing may force a joint discovery process neither company wants.","twitterPost":"By naming Microsoft alongside OpenAI, the suit forces Copilot's training pipeline into the same legal discovery as ChatGPT's.","threadsPost":"The lawsuit pairs Microsoft with OpenAI as co-defendants, which means Copilot's training data enters the same legal scrutiny as ChatGPT's. That joint liability claim may be the part that pushes both companies toward a settlement faster than a suit against OpenAI alone would have.","newsletterBlurb":"A newspaper company representing approximately 400 local and regional newspapers has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging unauthorized scraping of articles to train AI products. The suit seeks damages and injunctive relief, arguing that the AI boom will destroy local journalism if companies are not held accountable.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"GIGAZINE\",\"url\":\"https://gigazine.net/news/20260626-publishers-sue-microsoft-openai/\",\"title\":\"Newspaper Company Publishing Approximately 400 Newspapers Sues OpenAI and Microsoft for Unauthorized Scraping of Articles\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":3963,"outputTokens":515,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1782600988,"createdAt":"2026-06-27T22:52:17.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-06-27T22:55:24.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-27T22:55:24.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_296491fc8c27deafd99f0355","canonicalTitle":"約400紙の新聞を発行する新聞社が記事を無断でスクレイピングされたとしてOpenAIとMicrosoftを提訴","representativeArticleId":"a_144361c66a6ba58e7eceff2a","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"industry\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-06-26T04:40:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-06-26T04:40:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-27T22:55:24.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"GIGAZINE","url":"https://gigazine.net/news/20260626-publishers-sue-microsoft-openai/","title":"約400紙の新聞を発行する新聞社が記事を無断でスクレイピングされたとしてOpenAIとMicrosoftを提訴"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"industry","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":["A newspaper company that owns about 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft on June 24, 2026.","The lawsuit alleges OpenAI and Microsoft scraped articles from the plaintiffs' websites without permission to train AI models like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.","The plaintiffs seek damages and injunctive relief, arguing the AI boom threatens local journalism.","Attorney Matthew Platkin of the Platkin Law Firm said the suit is the largest-scale legal effort led by local and regional newspapers.","OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri said the company's models are trained on publicly available data under fair use principles."]}