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AllegationSeptember 4, 2026The Seattle Times Co. v. OpenAI, Inc. · S.D.N.Y., No. 1:26-cv-07644

The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging scraping of their journalism for ChatGPT and Copilot, and ask the court to order the models destroyed

On Sept. 4, 2026, The Seattle Times Co. and Newsday LLC, represented by Klaris Law, filed a 38-page complaint against the OpenAI entities and Microsoft. They allege that the defendants obtained their articles through WebText, WebText2, Common Crawl and Microsoft's Bing search index, that Newsday's robots.txt file tells OpenAI's and Common Crawl's crawlers to stay out, and that ChatGPT and Copilot deliver "copies and derivative imitations" of their reporting. The seven counts are direct and vicarious copyright infringement, DMCA 1202(b)(1) and 1202(b)(3), and federal, Washington and New York trademark dilution. The prayer for relief asks for impoundment or destruction under 17 U.S.C. 503 of all copies of the plaintiffs' works and of all language models and datasets built on them. The RECAP docket entry shows the initial filing was flagged for a signature error. The complaint states claims only; the defendants have not responded. The suit was filed in the district that hosts the OpenAI MDL.

Complaint, Dkt. 1 (RECAP) ↗Honolulu Star-Advertiser (AP) report, Sept. 5, 2026 ↗

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