Summary
Gracenote Media Services, LLC alleges that OpenAI used its proprietary entertainment metadata—including television and movie descriptions, music data, and sports information—to train ChatGPT and other large language models without authorization, and that ChatGPT outputs reproduce Gracenote's data and relational structure nearly verbatim.[1][2] Gracenote brings copyright infringement claims under the Copyright Act, alleging that OpenAI's unauthorized use of the curated metadata and its connecting framework—both protected by copyright—threatens Gracenote's licensing business with media distributors and competing AI companies.[2] The case is significant because it may establish a new precedent for how data providers protect intellectual property rights in proprietary datasets and their struct
Case details
- Court
- SDNY
- Docket number
- 1:26-cv-01947
- Filed
- Mar 10, 2026
- Status
- Active
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