Metadata company Gracenote, owned by Nielsen, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging unauthorized and unpaid use of its entertainment metadata and the framework that connects that information. The complaint asserts that OpenAI ignored Gracenote’s attempts to negotiate a licensing agreement and instead copied the data to develop commercially valuable AI products. Gracenote highlights that most AI lawsuits have focused on training data, but this case adds alleged infringement of the dataset’s structure. The company recently partnered with other tech firms on AI projects, underscoring the growing legal tension between data owners and AI developers. Read more →