• by Ray Schultz , Yesterday

The struggle over content-scraping is spreading globally. 

The Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the firm has used its content without payment. 

The suit filed in São Paulo charges that "the defendant develops and improves its AI tool [...] based on third-party content [...] without authorization and without paying any compensation," according to Reuters. 

The complaint adds that OpenAI reproduces full articles on the day they are published, diverting readers. 

"There is a clear practice of unfair competition, as OpenAI accesses Folha’s website daily, bypassing the newspaper’s mechanisms to prevent this, and distributes the content to users, thus taking away the newspaper’s audience," Taís Gasparian, attorney for Folha, told Reuters.  

The report adds that the suit is similar to those filed against OpenAI and other AI platforms in the United States. 

In another international action, Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper has sued U.S.-based Perplexity for allegedly "free-riding" on its content on its search engine.