HIGHCourt CaseACTIVE1:26-cv-02097
Court Case: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. v. OpenAI, Inc.
March 13, 2026Court: District Court, S.D. New York
Incident Summary
Encyclopaedia Britannica filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI alleging unauthorized use of Britannica’s copyrighted content in training ChatGPT. The case is filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under case number 1:26-cv-02097. The lawsuit centers on whether copyrighted reference content was used without permission as part of model training. The matter is in litigation; limited public details are provided in the signal beyond the filing and allegations.
Incident Details
- Type
- Court Case
- Severity
- HIGH
- Status
- ACTIVE
- Date Occurred
- March 13, 2026
- Court / Regulator
- District Court, S.D. New York
- Case Number
- 1:26-cv-02097
- Parties
- OpenAI, Inc. v. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. v. OpenAI GP, LLC v. OpenAI OpCo LLC
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