Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?
TL;DR
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A. G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.
Nauti's Take
A case fought to the end can create industry-wide clarity about which uses of journalism require a licence, and that is the real opportunity for smaller publishers who could never litigate themselves. The catch is cost: more than 20 million dollars shows that litigation alone is no strategy.
Anyone producing content should document access rules, crawling permissions and licences in parallel, and build direct reader relationships.
Summary
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.
G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.
G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.
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