The Guardian and ChatGPT announce strategic content licensing partnership, a day after Guardian owner GMG joins lawsuit against Canadian AI startup Cohere
19 Feb 2025
Guardian Media Group, which owns the UK newspaper and website The Guardian, has announced a strategic partnership with Artificial Intelligence developer Open AI, which is behind leading AI service ChatGPT. Appropriately, the deal was announced on February 14th – Valentine’s Day.
GMG said in a statement that the deal “will bring the Guardian’s high quality journalism to ChatGPT’s global users.”
The statement continues:
“Under the partnership, Guardian reporting and archive journalism will be available as a news source within ChatGPT, alongside the publication of attributed short summaries and article extracts.
In addition, the Guardian will also roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to develop new products, features and tools…
This announcement comes a year after the Guardian published its approach to AI, focused on ensuring that any use of genAI [‘generative AI’ that can create content including text, images, and video] is under human oversight and for the benefit of its readers, its business and its wider mission. This considered approach to AI continues as the Guardian Media Group explores agreements with both existing and emerging businesses to ensure fair compensation and attribution for its journalism.”
The latest GMG/OpenAI announcement was made the day after GMG was one of 14 publishers to launch legal action in New York against Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere, claiming Cohere had infringed copyright on thousands of articles.
The lawsuit alleges that the Canadian startup, which is currently apparently valued at $5bn, carried out "systematic copyright and trademark infringement" in using at least 4,000 news articles published by the plaintiffs to train its large language model. The complaint, which can be read online here, claims:
"Without permission or compensation, Cohere uses scraped copies of our articles, through training, real-time use, and in outputs, to power its artificial intelligence ('AI') service, which in turn competes with Publisher offerings and the emerging market for AI licensing."
The lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, continues: "not content with just stealing our works, Cohere also blatantly manufactures fake pieces and attributes them to us, misleading the public and tarnishing our brands."
The plaintiffs are seeking a permanent injunction, jury trial and damages of up to $150,000 for each article infringed.
The complaint further says that instead of licensing content, “Cohere fails to license the content it uses. Cohere takes Publishers’ valuable articles, without authorization and without providing compensation. Cohere copies, uses, and disseminates Publishers’ news and magazine articles to build and deliver a commercial service that mimics, undercuts, and competes with lawful sources for their articles and that displaces existing and emerging licensing markets.”
One key issue for publishers is that AI is being used to circumvent paywalls, so depriving them of revenue.
Other publishers which have signed licensing deals with OpenAI include the Financial Times, Axel Springer, Hearst, News Corp, the Associated Press, Vox Media, and Conde Nast. Reuters has signed a licensing deal with Meta, which means Reuters content can now be accessed through the AI chatbot on Microsoft platforms, including Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.
However, there are also multiple lawsuits against AI developers over unlicensed use of copyright material, including one filed by the New York Times against OpenAI and another from Dow Jones against Jeff Bezos-backed generative AI startup Perplexity.
And only this week, publishers who plan to challenge AI use of copyright material in the law courts received some good news, after a US judge reversed his own earlier decision that a jury would have to decide whether an AI company’s use of copyright material from Thomson Reuters-owned legal database Westlaw to train a rival AI-powered system was allowed under ‘fair use’.
The matter is covered in more detail on the National Law Review here; but it appears that Judge Stephanos Bibas in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware has now reviewed his own 2023 decision and has publicly stated that his earlier ruling failed into account the realities of modern AI systems.
Many AI developers have relied on ‘fair use’ in court cases; so if this decision stands – and it is highly likely that it will be appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court, given the amount of money at stake – then it will significantly damage their cases.
Guardian Media Group, which owns the UK newspaper and website The Guardian, has announced a strategic partnership with Artificial Intelligence developer Open AI, which is behind leading AI service ChatGPT. Appropriately, the deal was announced on February 14th – Valentine’s Day.
GMG said in a statement that the deal “will bring the Guardian’s high quality journalism to ChatGPT’s global users.”
The statement continues:
“Under the partnership, Guardian reporting and archive journalism will be available as a news source within ChatGPT, alongside the publication of attributed short summaries and article extracts.
In addition, the Guardian will also roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to develop new products, features and tools…
This announcement comes a year after the Guardian published its approach to AI, focused on ensuring that any use of genAI [‘generative AI’ that can create content including text, images, and video] is under human oversight and for the benefit of its readers, its business and its wider mission. This considered approach to AI continues as the Guardian Media Group explores agreements with both existing and emerging businesses to ensure fair compensation and attribution for its journalism.”
The latest GMG/OpenAI announcement was made the day after GMG was one of 14 publishers to launch legal action in New York against Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere, claiming Cohere had infringed copyright on thousands of articles.
The lawsuit alleges that the Canadian startup, which is currently apparently valued at $5bn, carried out "systematic copyright and trademark infringement" in using at least 4,000 news articles published by the plaintiffs to train its large language model. The complaint, which can be read online here, claims:
"Without permission or compensation, Cohere uses scraped copies of our articles, through training, real-time use, and in outputs, to power its artificial intelligence ('AI') service, which in turn competes with Publisher offerings and the emerging market for AI licensing."
The lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, continues: "not content with just stealing our works, Cohere also blatantly manufactures fake pieces and attributes them to us, misleading the public and tarnishing our brands."
The plaintiffs are seeking a permanent injunction, jury trial and damages of up to $150,000 for each article infringed.
The complaint further says that instead of licensing content, “Cohere fails to license the content it uses. Cohere takes Publishers’ valuable articles, without authorization and without providing compensation. Cohere copies, uses, and disseminates Publishers’ news and magazine articles to build and deliver a commercial service that mimics, undercuts, and competes with lawful sources for their articles and that displaces existing and emerging licensing markets.”
One key issue for publishers is that AI is being used to circumvent paywalls, so depriving them of revenue.
Other publishers which have signed licensing deals with OpenAI include the Financial Times, Axel Springer, Hearst, News Corp, the Associated Press, Vox Media, and Conde Nast. Reuters has signed a licensing deal with Meta, which means Reuters content can now be accessed through the AI chatbot on Microsoft platforms, including Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.
However, there are also multiple lawsuits against AI developers over unlicensed use of copyright material, including one filed by the New York Times against OpenAI and another from Dow Jones against Jeff Bezos-backed generative AI startup Perplexity.
And only this week, publishers who plan to challenge AI use of copyright material in the law courts received some good news, after a US judge reversed his own earlier decision that a jury would have to decide whether an AI company’s use of copyright material from Thomson Reuters-owned legal database Westlaw to train a rival AI-powered system was allowed under ‘fair use’.
The matter is covered in more detail on the National Law Review here; but it appears that Judge Stephanos Bibas in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware has now reviewed his own 2023 decision and has publicly stated that his earlier ruling failed into account the realities of modern AI systems.
Many AI developers have relied on ‘fair use’ in court cases; so if this decision stands – and it is highly likely that it will be appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court, given the amount of money at stake – then it will significantly damage their cases.
Guardian Media Group, which owns the UK newspaper and website The Guardian, has announced a strategic partnership with Artificial Intelligence developer Open AI, which is behind leading AI service ChatGPT. Appropriately, the deal was announced on February 14th – Valentine’s Day.
GMG said in a statement that the deal “will bring the Guardian’s high quality journalism to ChatGPT’s global users.”
The statement continues:
“Under the partnership, Guardian reporting and archive journalism will be available as a news source within ChatGPT, alongside the publication of attributed short summaries and article extracts.
In addition, the Guardian will also roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to develop new products, features and tools…
This announcement comes a year after the Guardian published its approach to AI, focused on ensuring that any use of genAI [‘generative AI’ that can create content including text, images, and video] is under human oversight and for the benefit of its readers, its business and its wider mission. This considered approach to AI continues as the Guardian Media Group explores agreements with both existing and emerging businesses to ensure fair compensation and attribution for its journalism.”
The latest GMG/OpenAI announcement was made the day after GMG was one of 14 publishers to launch legal action in New York against Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere, claiming Cohere had infringed copyright on thousands of articles.
The lawsuit alleges that the Canadian startup, which is currently apparently valued at $5bn, carried out "systematic copyright and trademark infringement" in using at least 4,000 news articles published by the plaintiffs to train its large language model. The complaint, which can be read online here, claims:
"Without permission or compensation, Cohere uses scraped copies of our articles, through training, real-time use, and in outputs, to power its artificial intelligence ('AI') service, which in turn competes with Publisher offerings and the emerging market for AI licensing."
The lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, continues: "not content with just stealing our works, Cohere also blatantly manufactures fake pieces and attributes them to us, misleading the public and tarnishing our brands."
The plaintiffs are seeking a permanent injunction, jury trial and damages of up to $150,000 for each article infringed.
The complaint further says that instead of licensing content, “Cohere fails to license the content it uses. Cohere takes Publishers’ valuable articles, without authorization and without providing compensation. Cohere copies, uses, and disseminates Publishers’ news and magazine articles to build and deliver a commercial service that mimics, undercuts, and competes with lawful sources for their articles and that displaces existing and emerging licensing markets.”
One key issue for publishers is that AI is being used to circumvent paywalls, so depriving them of revenue.
Other publishers which have signed licensing deals with OpenAI include the Financial Times, Axel Springer, Hearst, News Corp, the Associated Press, Vox Media, and Conde Nast. Reuters has signed a licensing deal with Meta, which means Reuters content can now be accessed through the AI chatbot on Microsoft platforms, including Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.
However, there are also multiple lawsuits against AI developers over unlicensed use of copyright material, including one filed by the New York Times against OpenAI and another from Dow Jones against Jeff Bezos-backed generative AI startup Perplexity.
And only this week, publishers who plan to challenge AI use of copyright material in the law courts received some good news, after a US judge reversed his own earlier decision that a jury would have to decide whether an AI company’s use of copyright material from Thomson Reuters-owned legal database Westlaw to train a rival AI-powered system was allowed under ‘fair use’.
The matter is covered in more detail on the National Law Review here; but it appears that Judge Stephanos Bibas in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware has now reviewed his own 2023 decision and has publicly stated that his earlier ruling failed into account the realities of modern AI systems.
Many AI developers have relied on ‘fair use’ in court cases; so if this decision stands – and it is highly likely that it will be appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court, given the amount of money at stake – then it will significantly damage their cases.
Guardian Media Group, which owns the UK newspaper and website The Guardian, has announced a strategic partnership with Artificial Intelligence developer Open AI, which is behind leading AI service ChatGPT. Appropriately, the deal was announced on February 14th – Valentine’s Day.
GMG said in a statement that the deal “will bring the Guardian’s high quality journalism to ChatGPT’s global users.”
The statement continues:
“Under the partnership, Guardian reporting and archive journalism will be available as a news source within ChatGPT, alongside the publication of attributed short summaries and article extracts.
In addition, the Guardian will also roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to develop new products, features and tools…
This announcement comes a year after the Guardian published its approach to AI, focused on ensuring that any use of genAI [‘generative AI’ that can create content including text, images, and video] is under human oversight and for the benefit of its readers, its business and its wider mission. This considered approach to AI continues as the Guardian Media Group explores agreements with both existing and emerging businesses to ensure fair compensation and attribution for its journalism.”
The latest GMG/OpenAI announcement was made the day after GMG was one of 14 publishers to launch legal action in New York against Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere, claiming Cohere had infringed copyright on thousands of articles.
The lawsuit alleges that the Canadian startup, which is currently apparently valued at $5bn, carried out "systematic copyright and trademark infringement" in using at least 4,000 news articles published by the plaintiffs to train its large language model. The complaint, which can be read online here, claims:
"Without permission or compensation, Cohere uses scraped copies of our articles, through training, real-time use, and in outputs, to power its artificial intelligence ('AI') service, which in turn competes with Publisher offerings and the emerging market for AI licensing."
The lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, continues: "not content with just stealing our works, Cohere also blatantly manufactures fake pieces and attributes them to us, misleading the public and tarnishing our brands."
The plaintiffs are seeking a permanent injunction, jury trial and damages of up to $150,000 for each article infringed.
The complaint further says that instead of licensing content, “Cohere fails to license the content it uses. Cohere takes Publishers’ valuable articles, without authorization and without providing compensation. Cohere copies, uses, and disseminates Publishers’ news and magazine articles to build and deliver a commercial service that mimics, undercuts, and competes with lawful sources for their articles and that displaces existing and emerging licensing markets.”
One key issue for publishers is that AI is being used to circumvent paywalls, so depriving them of revenue.
Other publishers which have signed licensing deals with OpenAI include the Financial Times, Axel Springer, Hearst, News Corp, the Associated Press, Vox Media, and Conde Nast. Reuters has signed a licensing deal with Meta, which means Reuters content can now be accessed through the AI chatbot on Microsoft platforms, including Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.
However, there are also multiple lawsuits against AI developers over unlicensed use of copyright material, including one filed by the New York Times against OpenAI and another from Dow Jones against Jeff Bezos-backed generative AI startup Perplexity.
And only this week, publishers who plan to challenge AI use of copyright material in the law courts received some good news, after a US judge reversed his own earlier decision that a jury would have to decide whether an AI company’s use of copyright material from Thomson Reuters-owned legal database Westlaw to train a rival AI-powered system was allowed under ‘fair use’.
The matter is covered in more detail on the National Law Review here; but it appears that Judge Stephanos Bibas in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware has now reviewed his own 2023 decision and has publicly stated that his earlier ruling failed into account the realities of modern AI systems.
Many AI developers have relied on ‘fair use’ in court cases; so if this decision stands – and it is highly likely that it will be appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court, given the amount of money at stake – then it will significantly damage their cases.
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