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The New York Times Has Spent $10.8M in Its Legal Battle with OpenAI So Far
The paper, buoyed by its 11 million-plus paid subscribers, is one of the few news outlets that can afford to engage in yearslong litigation with Big Tech.
Dotdash Meredith, the owner of People, Better Homes & Gardens and InStyle, disclosed in a November quarterly earnings report that those payments from its OpenAI licensing deal amounted to$16 million annually. The suit states it took the legal action “to hold them responsible for the billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages that they owe for the unlawful copying and use of The Times ’s uniquely valuable works.” The Times ‘ publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, doesn’t appear to have commented directly on the ongoing litigation but early last year cast the debate about AI in terms of a principled stand, even if the evolving tech has potential to help reporters as well.
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