Key holding or allegation
Complaint allegations only; no merits ruling.
Why it matters
New newspaper action closely related factually to the New York Times/OpenAI publisher cluster.
Facts
The publishers allege OpenAI and Microsoft scraped copyrighted and paywalled articles for training and operation of generative-AI services and that outputs reproduce or closely paraphrase protected content.
Issues before the court
Whether alleged acquisition, training, retrieval and outputs infringe and whether destruction or other remedies are available.
What the court did not decide
All merits issues and any eventual coordination with MDL 3143.
Procedural timeline
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Complaint filed: Seattle Times and Newsday filed copyright claims against OpenAI entities and Microsoft concerning alleged scraping, training, retrieval and outputs involving news articles.