AI Models Force Media Firms to Pick Licensing or Litigation (1)

News and media organizations facing the threat of generative AI training on their copyrighted work are increasingly diverging on two options: sue them or join them.

More than two dozen lawsuits accusing AI companies of infringing publishers’, authors’, and other creators’ copyrights are currently pending, according to a Bloomberg Law dockets analysis. Newspapers like New York Times Co. and Daily News LP are among those battling it out in court, arguing the unauthorized ingestion of their articles into AI models is illegal. Taking another approach, at least ten news companies, from News Corp to Axel Springer SE, have inked ...