The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a copyright infringement action against OpenAI and Microsoft in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on September 8, 2026. The complaint alleges that the defendants scraped both publications' websites, including content behind paywalls, incorporated the material into training datasets, and used those datasets to develop ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Bing AI features. The plaintiffs contend that the resulting systems can reproduce verbatim passages from their journalism, closely paraphrase articles, and generate responses that reduce traffic to publisher websites and depress subscription revenue. The papers seek an order requiring impoundment and destruction of infringing training datasets and AI models, as well as unspecified monetary damages. Seattle Times President Alan Fisco stated the company "must defend our content, which we spend millions of dollars a year to produce, from being used without our consent or compensation." Indian media owners with licensed content portfolios are following the case closely; a parallel Seeking Alpha report noted that Indian news outlets connected to prominent business figures are preparing a copyright action against OpenAI.