Canadian news organizations, including CBC and The Globe, suing ChatGPT maker for alleged copyright infringement

Featured on the front page of The Globe & Mail's Report on Business section, Sana Halwani was interviewed as lead counsel representing Canada's leading news media companies in their recently launched legal action against OpenAI for copyright infringement and breach of contract.

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Lenczner Slaght partner Sana Halwani, who is representing the news organizations, said OpenAI’s activities do not fall under the fair-dealing exemption. “They’re a commercial entity providing a product to people. So that, in our view, takes them out of the entire exception,” she said.

She also took issue with the contention made by AI companies that they train on “publicly available” material. “You can go borrow a book from your library and it is publicly available, and it does not mean you are allowed to copy and sell it,” she said.