Key holding or allegation
Complaint allegations only. The complaint identifies more than 160,000 dataset entries linked to plaintiffs' domains, which is not itself a judicially verified count of distinct copied articles.
Why it matters
Latest major U.S. publisher action against OpenAI at the cutoff and potentially related to the existing S.D.N.Y. MDL cluster.
Facts
USA Today and affiliated publisher entities allege OpenAI copied their journalism for model training, produced substitutive or reproducing outputs and removed copyright-management information.
Issues before the court
Whether alleged training and outputs infringe, whether §1202 applies, whether fair use protects the uses and what remedies are available.
What the court did not decide
No liability, fair use, dataset provenance, output infringement, CMI violation, damages, destruction remedy or coordination ruling has issued.
Procedural timeline
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Complaint filed: USA Today and affiliated publishers alleged unauthorized training, substitutive outputs and removal of copyright-management information.