{
  "id": 3138804,
  "title": "Editorial Perfil sues OpenAI, Microsoft over unauthorised use of journalistic content",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/editorial-perfil-sues-openai-microsoft-over-unauthorised-use-of",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-24T22:23:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Buenos Aires Times",
    "slug": "buenos-aires-times",
    "url": "https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/editorial-perfil-sues-openai-microsoft-over-unauthorised-use-of-journalistic-content.phtml"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Argentine media outlet Editorial Perfil has initiated legal proceedings against tech giants OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming the companies used its journalistic content without consent or compensation to train their artificial intelligence systems. The lawsuit, filed with Argentina's Federal Civil and Commercial Courts, names OpenAI, L.L.C., Microsoft Corporation, and its local subsidiary, Microsoft de Argentina S.R.L., as defendants. Editorial Perfil asserts the firms infringed copyright and engaged in unfair competition by profiting from the journalism material without authorization. The suit, backed by law firm Biscardi & Asociados and attorney Gonzalo Vidal Devoto, is believed to be the first of its kind brought against OpenAI and Microsoft by a Spanish-language media outlet. It follows a series of similar legal battles in international courts, such as The New York Times' lawsuits against the same companies in the United States and Folha de S.Paulo's dispute with OpenAI in Brazil. Established in 1976, Editorial Perfil publishes the Perfil newspaper and magazines like Noticias and Caras. According to the lawsuit, the publisher's articles, investigations, and interviews, including those behind its paywall, were scraped and utilized by the tech companies to train AI models sold commercially for billions of dollars, without providing any financial recompense. Additionally, Editorial Perfil alleges that Microsoft products such as Bing, Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI leverage journalistic content to directly answer user queries, thereby diminishing user visits to news sites and adversely affecting the financial viability of professional journalism. The media company also claims that large tech platforms possess disproportionate power in the digital landscape compared to media companies. Notably, OpenAI has reportedly secured licensing agreements with major international media groups like Spain's Prisa Media, while adopting a different approach in Argentina and Latin America, where it has not compensated local outlets for the content it employs. However, neither OpenAI nor Microsoft has issued a public response to Editorial Perfil's lawsuit as of the latest update.",
  "summary": "Argentine publisher sues OpenAI and Microsoft over use of news content; Media company accuses tech firms of intellectual property appropriation and unfair competition. Leer más",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}