The latest AI‑related litigation wave includes a major copyright case filed by USA Today and its 13 sister papers against OpenAI. Filed on Oct. 8, 2026 in Manhattan federal court, the suit alleges OpenAI copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles—over …
AI Copyright Wars Escalate as Courts Rule Against Training Use and Publishers Seek Billion‑Dollar Damages
Key developments: A U.S. Third Circuit appeals court affirmed that Ross Intelligence’s use of Thomson Reuters’s Westlaw headnotes to train its legal‑research AI was not fair use, marking the first federal appellate decision directly addressing AI‑training copyright claims. The ruling …