Why 35 US news publishers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft

35 local and regional newspaper publishers filed a copyright lawsuit on June 24, 2026, in the Southern District of New York against Microsoft and a web of OpenAI entities. Together, the publishers operate nearly 400 outlets across 33 states. The complaint alleges that Microsoft and OpenAI used automated systems to crawl publishers’ websites, including paywalled content, copy articles to their own servers, remove copyright management information (CMI), and incorporate the