The Seattle Times Company and Newsday LLC have filed a federal copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft, adding another publisher lawsuit to the fight over how generative AI systems use journalism.

CourtListener lists the case as filed on September 4 in the Southern District of New York, with a copyright infringement cause of action and Microsoft Corporation among the named parties. The record also lists several OpenAI entities, The Seattle Times Company, and Newsday LLC as parties.

According to TechCrunch, the complaint argues that AI products such as ChatGPT and Copilot consume human-authored reporting and can return copies or derivative versions of that work. The report says the publishers framed the dispute as a threat to news organizations whose content helps train or power AI systems.

Reuters, in a report carried by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, separately described the filing as alleging that the companies copied the newspapers' journalism without permission to train AI systems. The case follows earlier copyright suits by media organizations against AI developers, including The New York Times' 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft.

The claims remain allegations at this stage. The filing gives another court a chance to examine where copyright limits apply when news archives are used in model training, retrieval, or AI-generated responses.