NYT v. OpenAI/Microsoft (copyright)
Landmark litigation defining training-data legality
The New York Times' 2023 suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alongside cases like Authors Guild and a $1.5B Anthropic author settlement in 2025, is defining whether training on copyrighted text is fair use. The outcomes set the licensing cost and legal risk for the entire model supply chain. Boards now treat training-data provenance as a material disclosure item.
How it fits the stack
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NYT v. OpenAI/Microsoft (copyright) in the AI stack. NYT v. OpenAI/Microsoft (copyright) with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
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