Gracenote, a Nielsen subsidiary, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI. The suit alleges OpenAI used Gracenote’s music and entertainment metadata catalog to train large language models without authorization.
The litigation uniquely targets OpenAI’s alleged copying of Gracenote’s proprietary relational framework. Gracenote argues this complex structure for organizing metadata constitutes a protected work.
This case introduces a new legal angle to the expanding field of AI copyright litigation. OpenAI faces concurrent lawsuits from authors, publishers, and media companies over unauthorized training data.