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AllegationSeptember 16, 2026Times Publishing Co. v. Microsoft Corp. · S.D.N.Y., No. 1:26-cv-08082

The Tampa Bay Times and 25 local and nonprofit news outlets sue Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging their articles were scraped into GPT training data with the copyright information stripped out

On Sept. 16, 2026, Times Publishing Co. (publisher of the Tampa Bay Times) and 25 smaller publishers, among them the Austin Chronicle, Cape Gazette, Florida Trend, HD Media, the Alternative Newsweekly Foundation and several nonprofit newsrooms, filed a 52-page complaint against Microsoft and the OpenAI entities. Represented by Platkin LLP, they plead copyright infringement, vicarious infringement and DMCA 1202 removal of copyright management information. The complaint relies on token counts for the plaintiffs' domains in C4, a filtered 2019 snapshot of Common Crawl, to allege that their articles were in the data used to train GPT-3 and later models, and attaches examples it says show author, title, copyright notice and terms-of-use information being removed by OpenAI's text extractors before training. It describes that removal as "an instrumental part" of the pipeline. None of this has been tested; the defendants have not answered. The suit was filed in the district that hosts the OpenAI MDL.

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