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Canadian Publishers Sue Anthropic Over Alleged Copyright Scraping

By Drooid · Oct 20, 2026, 2:03 AM UTC · How we work

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Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and the Canadian Press sued Anthropic in Ontario.
The Oct. 6 lawsuit alleges Anthropic infringed copyright by training Claude with the publishers’ content.
Plaintiffs claim Anthropic scraped massive text from the sites and the wider internet without permission.
Publishers say Anthropic continues scraping content in response to user prompts, expanding its training data.

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Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and the Canadian Press sued Anthropic in Ontario.
The Oct. 6 lawsuit alleges Anthropic infringed copyright by training Claude with the publishers’ content.
Plaintiffs claim Anthropic scraped massive text from the sites and the wider internet without permission.
Publishers say Anthropic continues scraping content in response to user prompts, expanding its training data.