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Canadian Media Outlets Sue OpenAI Over Copyright Infringement


A coalition of Canada's leading news media companies have sued OpenAI for copyright infringement.

Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada today filed a legal action against OpenAI. In a statement released by Postmedia, the organizations accuse OpenAI for regularly [breaching] copyright and online terms of use by scraping large swaths of content from Canadian media to help develop its products, such as ChatGPT.” The suit, filed by attorneys Lenczner Slaght LLP, seeks punitive damages and a share of the profits made by OpenAI from using the news organizations’ articles.

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