The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging unauthorized copying across both AI training and generated outputs.

The complaint says the companies used the publishers' journalism, including paywalled material, without permission and can reproduce or closely paraphrase that reporting.

also allege trademark dilution through fabricated material attributed to their brands, pushing the dispute beyond training data alone.

They are seeking damages and destruction of training sets and AI models containing their work, although no court has ordered either remedy.

btw, The Seattle Times has received Microsoft philanthropy support and participated in a $10M AI fellowship funded by Microsoft and OpenAI, yet that cooperation did not prevent the copyright dispute.