Five major Canadian news outlets, including CBC/Radio-Canada and The Globe and Mail, sued OpenAI in December 2024 for scraping news content without permission to train ChatGPT. The suit mirrors earlier U.S. cases and alleges copyright infringement, circumvention of anti-scraping tools, and breach of terms of service; OpenAI argues its use is "fair dealing" and transformative, similar to Google's digitization of books. The outcome turns on whether courts classify scraping as reproduction and whether it qualifies as fair use/dealing; settlements and licensing deals appear likely but the legal precedent could materially affect AI training practices and data-acquisition costs for AI vendors.
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