OpenAI faces copyright lawsuits from major publications over AI training

USA Today joins the New York Times and Chicago Tribune in suing OpenAI, while the Justice Department backs the company's fair use defense America’s newspapers have found a common enemy, and it isn’t each other for once. The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and now USA Today have all taken OpenAI to court over how ChatGPT learned to write. The latest entrant is USA Today Co., which filed suit on October 8, 2026. It named both OpenAI and Microsoft as defendants. The complaint alleges that the companies scraped a large volume of articles from 19 affiliated publications without authorization. USA Today Co. is seeking over $250 million in damages. The New York Times got there first.

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