Overview

• Ziff Davis, a major U.S. digital publisher, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in Delaware federal court on April 24, 2025, alleging copyright infringement.
• The company accuses OpenAI of creating exact copies of its content without permission, bypassing robots.txt exclusions, and stripping copyright information from scraped data.
• Ziff Davis is demanding an injunction to stop OpenAI from using its works and the destruction of datasets and AI models containing its content.
• The lawsuit seeks at least hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, according to sources familiar with the matter.
• This case adds to a growing wave of legal actions by publishers, artists, and authors challenging AI companies over the use of copyrighted materials in training datasets.