{"id":291413,"date":"2026-07-09T14:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291413\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:54:08","slug":"new-york-times-led-group-asks-court-to-sanction-openai-in-us-copyright-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291413\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times-led group asks court to sanction OpenAI in US copyright dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Blake Brittain <\/p>\n

July 9 (Reuters) – A group of newspapers including the New York Times and New York Daily News asked a federal court in Manhattan \u200con Thursday to sanction OpenAI in their high-stakes copyright dispute for allegedly \u200clying to the court about its ability to search its systems for proof that it misused millions of \u200btheir articles in AI<\/a> training. <\/p>\n

The newspapers told the court in a filing that OpenAI falsely told the court it could not search its large language models for their copyrighted material while hiding that it had done so “even before the first News Plaintiff filed suit.” <\/p>\n

The newspapers \u200csaid that OpenAI had also \u2060deleted billions of relevant ChatGPT conversations or made them unsearchable. They asked the court for sanctions, including attorneys’ fees, and a court finding \u2060that OpenAI’s chat logs showed that the company misused their copyrighted works. <\/p>\n

Spokespeople for OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the motion. <\/p>\n

The lawsuit, first filed by the \u200bTimes in \u200b2023, accused OpenAI and its largest financial \u200bbacker Microsoft<\/a> of using millions of \u200cits articles without permission to train the large language model behind OpenAI’s popular chatbot ChatGPT. <\/p>\n

The case is one of many brought by copyright owners including authors, visual artists and music labels against tech companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta Platforms for allegedly misusing their material to train AI systems. <\/p>\n

“For over two years, OpenAI lied to The Times, \u200cThe Daily News Plaintiffs, the public, and the \u200bcourt,” the New York Times’ lead attorney Ian Crosby \u200bsaid in a statement. “It claimed searching \u200bChatGPT outputs for copies of The Times’ and the Daily News \u200cPlaintiffs’ content was infeasible, burdensome, and invasive \u200bof users’ privacy \u2013 while \u200bat the same time concealing that it had already done such searches.” <\/p>\n

OpenAI previously told the court that it did not have tools to search its datasets \u200band output logs for copyrighted \u200cmaterial, but an OpenAI employee later testified that the company had “performed multiple \u200bsearches for News Plaintiffs’ content,” according to the newspapers’ Thursday filing. <\/p>\n

(Reporting by Blake \u200bBrittain in Washington; edited by David Gaffen) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Blake Brittain July 9 (Reuters) – A group of newspapers including the New York Times and New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3534,9,14051,11,10,111325,3605],"class_list":["post-291413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-federal-court","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news-plaintiff","tag-openai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}