OpenAI Sanctions Fight
News publishers ask a judge to punish OpenAI over alleged evidence withholding.
July 9, 2026 · Updated Jul 9, 6:58pm ET
Al JazeeraNYT-led group asks court to sanction OpenAI in US copyright dispute
CNETPublishers Accuse OpenAI of Withholding Evidence in Copyright Lawsuits
ARS TechnicaOpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
TechCrunchNew York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
ABC NewsNews outlets urge a judge to sanction OpenAI in a high-stakes AI copyright fight
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What happened
The New York Times, the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, Ziff DavisZiff DavisAmerican publisher and Internet company and 13 other publishers asked a federal judge to sanction OpenAI, saying the company withheld evidence in their copyright lawsuits over ChatGPT. The motion says OpenAI misrepresented its ability to search customer chat logs and training datasets for the publishers’ copyrighted articles. The disputed evidence includes records of users prompting ChatGPT to reproduce paywalled news content. The cases accuse OpenAI of infringing copyrights by using news articles to train generative AI models and by producing outputs that replicate protected journalism.
