Publishers are claiming rights they no longer hold, and literary agents are demanding cuts they were never entitled to — throwing the landmark copyright payout into disarray.
Two major US news publishers filed a joint copyright lawsuit on September 4, accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of scraping paywalled journalism to train ChatGPT, Copilot, and Bing AI without permission.
CEO John Ternus and services chief Eddy Cue are pushing to squeeze more revenue from the App Store. Phil Schiller walked away rather than put his name to the changes.
