Canadian news media sue OpenAI for copyright violations, but will they win?

Last week, five of Canada’s most prominent news media outlets launched a lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement, demanding what could amount to billions in damages. The suit follows similar cases brought earlier this year against the creator of ChatGPT by The New York Times and other media companies in the United States.

At the heart of all these lawsuits is the claim that OpenAI “scraped” large amounts of content from media sites. This involved copying without permission. And the company is making a profit from it without compensating the original creators.