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ReportedOctober 6, 2026Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press v. Anthropic · Ontario court (Canada); court and file number not yet reported

Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press sue Anthropic in Ontario, alleging it scraped their news sites without a licence to train Claude and keeps scraping them

The Canadian Press reported on Oct. 19, 2026 that four of Canada's largest news publishers filed a statement of claim against Anthropic in an Ontario court on Oct. 6; the trade site Cartt.ca first reported the filing. According to the reports, the claim alleges that Anthropic copied enormous amounts of text from the internet and from the publishers' own websites without consent or a licence to develop its Claude models, that it continues to scrape their content in response to user prompts, that it circumvented technological protection measures and breached the sites' terms of service, and that it has been unjustly enriched at the publishers' expense. The claim says Anthropic "has done nothing to curtail its unlawful behaviour". The reports do not state the damages or other relief sought, and Anthropic had not commented. The same publishers, with CBC/Radio-Canada, sued OpenAI in Ontario in November 2024; that case is still pending. This is the first suit by news organisations, rather than book authors or music publishers, against Anthropic. We have not seen the statement of claim; these are the plaintiffs' allegations as reported, and nothing has been proven in court.

News publishers launch copyright suit against AI company Anthropic in Ontario (The Canadian Press via Global News, Oct. 19, 2026) ↗Canadian publishers launch copyright suit against AI company Anthropic (MobileSyrup, Oct. 19, 2026) ↗Canadian news publishers sue Anthropic for copyright infringement (The Globe and Mail, Oct. 19, 2026) ↗

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