加拿大多家新闻媒体公司起诉OpenAI，指控其侵犯版权

A group of Canadian news and media companies filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT maker has infringed their copyrights and unjustly enriched itself at their expense.

诉讼公司名单及要求参与诉讼的公司包括《多伦多星报》、加拿大广播公司（CBC）、《环球邮报》等。他们不仅寻求经济赔偿，还要求法院禁止OpenAI继续使用他们的内容。

The companies behind the lawsuit include the Toronto Star, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Globe and Mail, and others who seek to win monetary damages and ban OpenAI from making further use of their work.

诉讼理由：未经授权使用媒体内容这些媒体公司表示，OpenAI利用从他们网站抓取的内容训练大型语言模型，而这些内容是媒体公司及其记者、编辑和工作人员投入大量时间、努力和成本生产的“珍贵成果”。

The news companies said that OpenAI has used content scraped from their websites to train the large language models that power ChatGPT — content that is “the product of immense time, effort, and cost on behalf of the News Media Companies and their journalists, editors, and staff.”

指控：侵占知识产权诉讼中提到，“OpenAI没有选择合法获取这些信息，而是公然侵占新闻媒体公司的重要知识产权，将其转化为自己的用途，包括商业用途，而未获得任何许可或补偿。”

The companies wrote in their suit that “rather than seek to obtain the information legally, OpenAI has elected to brazenly misappropriate the News Media Companies’ valuable intellectual property and convert it for its own uses, including commercial uses, without consent or consideration.”

类似案件及授权协议背景实际上，OpenAI正面临来自多个领域的版权诉讼，包括《纽约时报》、《纽约每日新闻》、YouTube创作者，以及作家（如喜剧演员Sarah Silverman）的指控。尽管OpenAI已与《美联社》（Associated Press）、Axel Springer集团、《世界报》（Le Monde）等出版商签署了内容授权协议，但此次提起诉讼的加拿大媒体公司称，他们“从未收到OpenAI的任何形式的补偿，包括支付费用”。

OpenAI is also facing copyright lawsuits from The New York Times, New York Daily News, YouTube creators, and authors including comedian Sarah Silverman. While OpenAI has signed licensing deals with publishers such as The Associated Press, Axel Springer, and Le Monde, the companies behind the new suit said they have “never received from OpenAI any form of consideration, including payment, in exchange for OpenAI’s use of their Works.”

OpenAI回应：基于合理使用对此，OpenAI的一位发言人表示，ChatGPT被全球数亿用户使用，用于“改善日常生活、激发创造力并解决难题”。他们的模型“基于公开可用的数据进行训练，遵循合理使用及相关国际版权原则，既保护创作者权益，又支持创新。”

An OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement that ChatGPT is used by “hundreds of millions of people around the world … to improve their daily lives, inspire creativity, and solve hard problems,” and that its models are “trained on publicly available data, grounded in fair use and related international copyright principles that are fair for creators and support innovation.”

新闻研究中心的相关调查值得注意的是，这场诉讼正值哥伦比亚大学数字新闻学中心（Tow Center for Digital Journalism）发布一项研究之后。研究指出，“无论出版商与OpenAI的合作程度如何，ChatGPT在引用其内容时都存在不准确的情况。”

This new lawsuit comes shortly after Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism published a study finding that “no publisher — regardless of degree of affiliation with OpenAI — was spared inaccurate representations of its content in ChatGPT.”