Media including The Globe and Mail newspaper and public broadcaster CBC accused OpenAI of breaching copyrights by “scraping large swaths of content” and profiting from the use of this content, according to a statement.
This was done without the permission of or compensation for the news organisations, which are seeking Can$20,000 (US$14,700) per article they claim was illegally scraped and used to train ChatGPT.

This could put the total value of the claim in the billions of dollars.

“Journalism is in the public interest. OpenAI using other companies’ journalism for their own commercial gain is not. It’s illegal,” the coalition said.An OpenAI spokesperson responded to the lawsuit saying that its chatbox is trained on publicly available data “grounded in fair use and related international copyright principles that are fair for creators and support innovation.”
The company also collaborates with news publishers, the spokesperson added.

The lawsuit is the first by Canadian media against OpenAI.The organisations – which also include Postmedia, The Canadian Press and Torstar, the parent of the Toronto Star newspaper, according to legal documents – are seeking an injunction to stop the San Francisco-based company’s ongoing and future “unauthorised misappropriation” of their work.

“We will not stand by while tech companies steal our content,” Torstar chief executive Neil Oliver reportedly wrote in a memo to staff shortly after the court documents were filed.

“While we embrace the opportunities that technological innovation can bring, all participants must follow the law, and any use of our intellectual property must be on fair terms,” he said.
Generative artificial intelligence caught the world’s attention with OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT in late 2022.

The technology can produce videos, pictures or written works quickly, drawing from available content to answer demands expressed in everyday language.

While elating some users, it has aroused ire in authors, artists and others who believe their creations are being absorbed without them being asked or compensated. Publications such as the New York Times have filed lawsuits to defend their content, while some news organizations have opted to make licensing deals.

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The vaccine is the third to be approved by Health Canada following the December approval of vaccines developed by Pfizer Inc with BioNTech SE and Moderna Inc.

“With Pfizer, Moderna, and now AstraZeneca, Canada will get more than 6.5 million doses before the end of March,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters. “And there will be tens of millions more doses to come between April and June.”

Canada has ordered 20 million doses of the vaccine from AstraZeneca, and is due to receive 1.9 million through COVAX – the international initiative set up to provide equitable access to vaccines – in the first half of the year.

On Friday, Canada said it had secured an additional 2 million doses through its agreement with Verity Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc and the Serum Institute of India.

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The United Kingdom’s European neighbours began closing their doors to travellers from the United Kingdom on Sunday, and others were considering similar action, amid alarm about a rapidly spreading strain of coronavirus that has caused cases to soar in the country.

France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,Belgium, Austria, Ireland and Bulgaria all announced restriction on travel to the UK, hours after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that Christmas shopping and gatherings in southern England must be cancelled because of rapidly spreading infections due to the new coronavirus variant.

France banned all travel from the U.K. for 48 hours from midnight Sunday, including trucks carrying freight through the tunnel under the English Channel or from the port of Dover on England’s south coast.

“The coronavirus variant recently discovered in London is worrying and will need to be investigated by our scientists,” Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza said.

Meanwhile, Indian National Congress, too, has demanded that all the flights to the UK be suspended.

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