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VerticalScope has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the AI company scraped content from over 1,200 online communities to train its GPT models without authorization.
Canada
In an interview with Law Times, Sana Halwani commented on
VerticalScope's legal action against OpenAI for scraping
content from its 1,200+ online communities to train generative AI
models, infringing its copyright and violating its terms of use.
Sana emphasized that VerticalScope's forums contain uniquely
valuable, human-generated content that has been vetted and refined
by large communities of users, making it especially useful for
training large language models.
We are counsel to VerticalScope in this matter, the second of
its kind in Canada against OpenAI, following the claim we brought
on behalf of Canada's leading news media companies in November
2024.
Widely recognized as Canada’s leading litigation practice, Lenczner Slaght represents clients’ interests in complex, high-profile cases across the country. The firm’s lawyers are distinguished by their depth of court room experience, appearing regularly at all levels of the federal and provincial courts and before professional and regulatory tribunals, as well as in mediation and arbitration proceedings. Visit www.litigate.com to learn more.
