Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft
Executive Take
Every AI company training on public content now faces mounting legal risk from publishers. Leaders building on foundation models should assume copyright exposure is a live cost, not a hypothetical one.
Executive Summary
Seattle Times and Newsday have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies used their journalism without permission to train AI models. They join a growing list of news organizations, including the New York Times, that have taken similar legal action.
Why It Matters
AI and legal leaders need to watch this because the outcome could set the price and terms for using copyrighted content to train models. Technology executives licensing AI tools from OpenAI or Microsoft should track whether liability could pass through to them.
Bizquad Perspective
The real risk isn't losing these cases, it's the slow drip of settlements that will quietly become the industry's new cost of doing business in AI training data.