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2026-09-19 · Source：Tom's Hardware
A legal brief in the New York Times' copyright suit surfaces damaging remarks from Microsoft and OpenAI as the publisher pushes for summary judgment nearly three years in.
The New York Times has filed a legal brief in its copyright infringement case against Microsoft and OpenAI that surfaces statements from both companies the publication considers potentially damaging to their defense. The filing comes as the newspaper asks the court to grant summary judgment, nearly three years after it first initiated the litigation.
The most striking disclosure is a remark attributed to a Microsoft director, who described AI scraping as 'the largest theft of labor in human history.' The brief also reveals that the head of OpenAI branded ChatGPT an 'existential threat' to publishers. Both statements, uncovered through legal briefs filed in the lawsuit, now sit in the public record as the litigation advances toward a possible judicial ruling.
Summary judgment is the procedural route by which a party asks a court to resolve a case without proceeding to a full trial. By pursuing it, the Times is seeking a decisive outcome on its copyright infringement claims, which it brought against Microsoft and OpenAI almost three years ago. The newly surfaced statements form part of the evidentiary picture presented to the court at this stage.
The remarks carry particular weight because they originate from within the defendant companies themselves. A director at Microsoft — a co-defendant in the case — framing scraping in those terms, and the head of OpenAI describing ChatGPT as an existential threat to the publishing industry, hand the newspaper potentially damaging material as it presses for judgment. How the court weighs these statements, alongside the rest of the record, will shape the next phase of the copyright confrontation between the publisher and the two technology companies.
Mots-clés: Microsoft · OpenAI · The New York Times · ChatGPT · Copyright Lawsuit · AI Training Data
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