VerticalScope Sues OpenAI, Claims AI Giant Infringed Copyright by Scraping Content to Train GPT Models

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.