Two news outlets lose copyright claim against OpenAI over scraping of content

AlterNet and Raw Story have the opportunity to replead their case.

A close up view of the ChatGPT app updating on an iPhone screen, illustrating a story about increasing referral traffic from AI platforms ChatGPT and Perplexity to news sites — A close up view of the ChatGPT app updating on an iPhone screen. Picture: PixieMe/Shutterstock

One of the first copyright cases to be brought by news publishers against OpenAI has been dismissed by a judge.

Left-leaning news outlets AlterNet and Raw Story objected to the use of “thousands” of pieces of their content being used by OpenAI to train ChatGPT.

They alleged that their copyrighted work was “caught in a “scrape of most of the internet” to train ChatGPT and stripped of their author, title and copyright information” and sought damages from OpenAI.

Charlotte Tobitt

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Charlotte Tobitt is UK editor at Press Gazette, having joined the site in February 2018 after spending four years at the Surrey Advertiser.

Two news outlets lose copyright claim against OpenAI over scraping of content

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