UK publisher Reach sends OpenAI cease-and-desist over unlicensed scraping
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What happened
Reach plc (owner of the Daily Express, Daily Star, and OK! Magazine) agreed a two-year paid deal giving Google expanded rights to use its UK/Ireland news content in experimental AI features. CEO Piers North told Digiday the Google deal is positioned as a template for future LLM licensing.
The OpenAI dispute
North told Digiday that Reach has sent OpenAI "the next stage in the legal process" - described in the piece as a cease-and-desist letter - because OpenAI "is not playing ball." Reach says its access logs show OpenAI bots hitting its content millions of times per month, and that it logged "well over 100 million successful scrapes" of its portfolio over six months. Per the piece, OpenAI had not publicly responded.
Boundary
The Google licensing deal is a separate bilateral agreement; the qualifying item here is the OpenAI cease-and-desist escalation.
Fuentes
- Reach CEO touts Google AI deal as a template, steps up pressure on OpenAI over scraping — Digiday (secondary)