"Defendants could have paid Gracenote to license its valuable Gracenote Data. Or they could have sought to train and ground their models only on information in the public domain. They did neither. Defendants instead improperly copied and used Gracenote Data to create their own commercially valuable AI products, all without paying a dime."
"Gracenote specializes in entertainment metadata, creating descriptions and identifiers for content that clients such as TV providers use to help their own customers with discovery. Most of the lawsuits against AI businesses have focused on the content used to train LLMs, but the Gracenote case brings an extra layer with the alleged infringement of the structure or sequence for a dataset in addition to the actual data."
Gracenote, a Nielsen-owned metadata company, is suing OpenAI for allegedly using its entertainment metadata and data structure without authorization or payment. Gracenote specializes in creating descriptions and identifiers for entertainment content used by TV providers and other clients. Unlike most AI copyright lawsuits focusing solely on training data, this case uniquely addresses both the actual data and the framework organizing that information. Gracenote claims it attempted to negotiate a licensing agreement with OpenAI, but those efforts were ignored or rejected. The company states OpenAI could have licensed the data, used only public domain information, or negotiated terms, but instead copied and used Gracenote Data to build commercial AI products without compensation. Gracenote has successfully established licensing deals with other companies including Samsung and Google.
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