{"slug": "court-allows-news-publishers-copyright-lawsuit-against-openai-to-go-ahead", "title": "Court allows news publishers' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI to go ahead", "summary": "The Ontario Court of Appeal on Friday dismissed OpenAI's appeal and allowed a copyright lawsuit by Canadian news publishers to proceed in Ontario, upholding a lower court's finding that the province has jurisdiction. The coalition — The Canadian Press, Torstar, The Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada — sued two years ago, arguing OpenAI trained ChatGPT on their news content without permission or compensation; the decision noted OpenAI filed no evidence that a Canadian judgment would conflict with U.S. law. The case, which began in 2024, is the first in Canada to address using copyrighted content to train generative AI systems, and Ottawa has not indicated plans to update the Copyright Act.", "body_md": "OTTAWA — The Ontario Court of Appeal is allowing a copyright lawsuit filed by Canadian news publishers against OpenAI to proceed in that province after dismissing an appeal by the company.\n\nA coalition of Canadian news outlets which includes The Canadian Press, Torstar, The Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada launched the lawsuit two years ago.\n\nThey argue OpenAI is using their news content to train ChatGPT, breaching copyright and profiting from the use of that content without permission or compensation.\n\nOpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, put forward a jurisdictional challenge and argued the case should be heard in a U.S. courtroom instead. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice concluded the court does have jurisdiction to hear the case.\n\nOpenAI appealed the decision and the court dismissed that appeal Friday.\n\nThe decision said OpenAI did not file any evidence showing a judgment in Canada would conflict with any existing United States laws, which would complicate enforcement.\n\nIt also said the judge found \"the fair and efficient working of the Canadian legal system favoured allowing Canadian authors to bring claims against foreign companies for breaches of Canadian laws.\"\n\nThe lawsuit, which has dragged on since 2024, is the first Canadian case to address the practice of using copyrighted content to train generative AI systems.\n\nEarlier this year, Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press launched a separate lawsuit against AI company Anthropic.\n\nNews and cultural industry groups have called on the federal government to take a stand on how AI systems use copyrighted content, but Ottawa has not indicated any plans to do so or to update the Copyright Act.\n\nMultiple lawsuits dealing with AI systems and copyright are underway in the United States, some dating back to 2023.\n\nThat includes a case by a group of publishers including the Toronto Star, Condé Nast and McClatchy alleging Canadian AI company Cohere infringed their copyright by scraping their articles from the internet without the publishers' permission or compensation.\n\nThis report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 13, 2026.\n\n- With files from Anja Karadeglija\n\nCatherine Morrison, The Canadian Press", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/court-allows-news-publishers-copyright-lawsuit-against-openai-to-go-ahead", "canonical_source": "https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/court-allows-news-publishers-copyright-211856777.html", "published_at": "2026-11-13 22:22:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-13 22:51:11.817150+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "generative-ai", "large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Ontario Court of Appeal", "The Canadian Press", "Torstar", "The Globe and Mail", "Postmedia", "CBC/Radio-Canada", "ChatGPT"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/court-allows-news-publishers-copyright-lawsuit-against-openai-to-go-ahead", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/court-allows-news-publishers-copyright-lawsuit-against-openai-to-go-ahead.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/court-allows-news-publishers-copyright-lawsuit-against-openai-to-go-ahead.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/court-allows-news-publishers-copyright-lawsuit-against-openai-to-go-ahead.jsonld"}}