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After disputes with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice decided to proceed in Ontario the copyright lawsuit filed by Canadian news publishers.
The lawsuit, originally filed in November 2024, read that OpenAI allegedly violated copyright law using proprietary content for training their AI models.
During a court hearing in September, OpenAI’s lawyers said the court had no jurisdiction over the case and that it should be heard in a U.S. courtroom. They argued that none of the companies in the lawsuit can be said to have business in Ontario.
Other reasons are that OpenAI is not located inside of Ontario and that they don’t do business in the province either. They also added that the AI model training and web crawling took place outside of Ontario.
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice concluded that they do have jurisdiction on the case from the corporate entities having trademarks, advertisements and contracts in Canada which establishes enough of a connection
News groups in the lawsuit includes The Canadian Press, CBC/Radio-Canada and other news publication companies.
The news organizations argue that OpenAI is using their content to train ChatGPT, therefore breaching copyright and profiting from the use of their content without permission or compensation.
