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Canadian news publishers v. Anthropic: lawsuit filed in Ontario over scraped journalism used to train and run Claude

General damages and disgorgement of profits, or alternatively statutory damages of up to $20,000 per infringed work, plus punitive damages and injunctions (no total stated; currency not stated in the report)

Dated 6 Oct 2026Source checked 14 Oct 2026Basis: reported

In the source's own words
“A coalition of Canadian media organizations has launched a sweeping legal action in Ontario Superior Court against AI developer Anthropic and its Canadian subsidiary, alleging ongoing unauthorized scraping of their copyrighted journalism.”
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