Five Canadian news media companies filed a legal action on Friday
  against ChatGPT owner [1]OpenAI, accusing the artificial-intelligence
  company of regularly breaching copyright and online terms of use.

  The case is part of a wave of lawsuits against OpenAI and other tech
  companies by authors, visual artists, music publishers and other
  copyright owners over data used to train generative AI systems.
  [2]Microsoft is OpenAI's major backer.

  In a statement, Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian
  Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada said OpenAI was scraping large swaths of
  content to develop its products without getting permission or
  compensating content owners.

  "Journalism is in the public interest. OpenAI using other companies'
  journalism for their own commercial gain is not. It's illegal," they
  said.

  A New York federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Nov. 7 against OpenAI
  that claimed it misused articles from news outlets Raw Story and
  AlterNet.

  In an 84-page statement of claim filed in Ontario's superior court of
  justice, the five Canadian companies demanded damages from OpenAI and a
  permanent injunction preventing it from using their material without
  consent.

  "Rather than seek to obtain the information legally, OpenAI has elected
  to brazenly misappropriate the News Media Companies' valuable
  intellectual property and convert it for its own uses, including
  commercial uses, without consent or consideration," they said in the
  filing.

  "The News Media Companies have never received from OpenAI any form of
  consideration, including payment, in exchange for OpenAI's use of their
  Works."

  In response, OpenAI said its models were trained on publicly available
  data, grounded in fair use and related international copyright
  principles that were fair for creators.

  "We collaborate closely with news publishers, including in the display,
  attribution and links to their content in ChatGPT search, and offer
  them easy ways to opt out should they so desire," a spokesperson said
  via email.

  The Canadian news companies' document did not mention Microsoft. This
  month, billionaire [3]Elon Musk expanded a lawsuit against OpenAI to
  include Microsoft, alleging the two companies illegally sought to
  monopolize the market for generative AI and sideline competitors.

References

  1. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/26/openai-gets-1point5-billion-investment-from-softbank-in-tender-offer.html
  2. https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/MSFT/
  3. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/15/musk-expands-lawsuit-against-openai-adding-microsoft-and-antitrust-claims.html