By Claire Thornton
Publication Date: 2025-11-28 17:48:00
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeks more than $10 billion in damages for the newspapers, all of which are owned or managed by MediaNews Group, according to Steve Lieberman, a lawyer representing the group.
“There is no longer any question that AI models feed on copyrighted content,” the lawsuit says.
Specifically, the complaint says, the defendants’ artificial intelligence technologies “were trained on copyrighted content scraped from the internet, regardless of paywalls or other restrictions, and heedless of the rights of publishers and owners.”
In addition to the Herald and the Courant, the group of nine includes the Los Angeles Daily News, The San Diego Union-Tribune, San Bernardino Sun, The Morning Call in eastern Pennsylvania, the Boulder Daily Camera, and the Daily Press and Virginian-Pilot in southern Virginia.
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