Canada's biggest newspapers sue Anthropic over Claude training data
Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press filed the claim October 6, alleging scraping and broken terms of service
Four of Canada's biggest news publishers just told a court that Anthropic built Claude on their journalism without ever asking permission or paying for it. The claim doesn't stop at "you copied our stuff" — it says Anthropic broke its own terms of service and got around the technical blocks the publishers put up to stop scraping in the first place. That's a sharper argument than the usual copyright complaint, and it's worth watching closely, because the same publishers already have an unresolved 2024 case against OpenAI sitting on the docket.
From the Coral Wire edition of Tue, Oct 20 2026 · Coral Index 57/100 (Mixed signals)