{"id":1000347,"date":"2026-04-01T08:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000347"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:36:01","slug":"german-childrens-book-publisher-sues-openai-over-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/german-childrens-book-publisher-sues-openai-over-copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"German children&#8217;s book publisher sues OpenAI over copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Publishing giant Penguin Random House announced a lawsuit against OpenAI on Tuesday, alleging that the AI-powered ChatGPT violated copyright by mimicking and reproducing content from a German children&#8217;s book series. <\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT readily churned out illustrations and other content from Ingo Siegner&#8217;s &#8220;Coconut the Little Dragon&#8221; series after simple user prompts &#8220;that are virtually indistinguishable from the original&#8221;, according to a statement from its German-language publishing group, Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishing giant Penguin Random House announced a lawsuit against OpenAI on Tuesday, alleging that the AI-powered ChatGPT violated copyright by mimicking and reproducing content from a German children&#8217;s book series. ChatGPT readily churned out illustrations and other content from Ingo Siegner&#8217;s &#8220;Coconut the Little Dragon&#8221; series after simple user prompts &#8220;that are virtually indistinguishable from the original&#8221;, according to a statement from its German-language publishing group, Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}