Three Terrestrial Broadcasters File First Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI... "Infringement of Korea's Data Sovereignty"

KBS, MBC, and SBS File for Damages
Legal Action Targeting Global AI
"Decades of News Content Used for Training Without Consent"

The three terrestrial broadcasters KBS, MBC, and SBS have filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT.

According to the Korea Broadcasters Association on February 23, they filed a lawsuit with the Seoul Central District Court against OpenAI on the same day, seeking an injunction to stop copyright infringement and a claim for damages. This is the first lawsuit filed by a Korean broadcaster targeting a global AI company.

The three terrestrial broadcasters claim that OpenAI trained its commercial generative AI, ChatGPT, by using the news content of the three terrestrial broadcasters without permission. They intend to clearly hold the company legally accountable for intellectual property rights infringement.

The association also defined the unauthorized data collection by global big tech companies, which leverage massive capital and technological power, as a serious "infringement of the Republic of Korea's data sovereignty." It warned that the practice of plundering the knowledge assets that foreign media outlets have accumulated over decades and monopolizing commercial profits can no longer be packaged as "innovation."