News Orgs Fight OpenAI, Microsoft's Fair Use Arguments - Law360

By Elliot Weld (October 23, 2026, 6:10 PM EDT) -- Several news organizations are in a major legal fight with OpenAI and Microsoft over whether companies that make artificial intelligence (AI) can legally use news articles to train their AI systems. On Friday, the news organizations asked a federal judge in New York not to decide that this practice is allowed under a copyright rule called "fair use." They argued that the technology companies want to be able to copy entire news articles freely without getting permission....