OpenAI is also facing similar lawsuits from news publishers in the U.S. Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images

A lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI Inc. brought by a group of Canadian media companies can proceed in Ontario, a court ruled on Friday.

In November 2024, a consortium of Canadian media publishers, including Postmedia Network Inc., which publishes the Financial Post among other titles, CBC/Radio-Canada, The Globe and Mail, the Canadian Press and Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., sued OpenAI accusing it of “regularly breaching” copyright and online terms of use by scraping large troves of content from their websites to train its AI models and develop products such as ChatGPT.

“News media companies invest hundreds of millions of dollars into reporting Canadians’ crit

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