Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for copyright and trademark infringement

OpenAI has been hit with another lawsuit. This time, Encyclopedia Britannica took legal action against OpenAI, accusing the company of copyright and trademark infringements, as first reported by Reute [...]

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles

Filed in New York on 13 March 2026, the complaint accuses OpenAI of using the reference publishers’ content as AI training data without permission, then generating responses that reproduce it verbat [...]

'Slop' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year

Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced u [...]

Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica are the latest to sue AI firm Perplexity

Dictionary and encyclopedia giants allege that the AI company is scraping their content without permission. [...]

OpenAI is getting sued by Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT was trained on nearly 100,000 of their copyrighted articles [...]

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for training on nearly 100,000 articles without permission

Britannica sues OpenAI for almost 100,000 copied articles. At the same time, courts in Europe are arguing about whether AI models can "store" copyrighted works at all - with conflicting resu [...]

Perplexity's definition of copyright gets it sued by the dictionary

Merriam-Webster and its parent company Encyclopedia Britannica are the latest to take on AI in court. The plaintiffs have sued Perplexity, claiming that AI company's "answer engine" pro [...]

Encyclopaedia Britannica is the latest giant to sue OpenAI

The group, which also runs the online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is alleging that OpenAI misused Britannica’s reference materials to train AI models. [...]

Encyclopedia Britannica is the latest giant to sue OpenAI

The group, which also runs the online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is alleging that OpenAI misused its reference materials to train AI models. [...]