A copyright lawsuit against ChatGPT creator OpenAI by a coalition of Canadian news media companies can proceed in Ontario, a judge ruled Friday.

The decision rejects OpenAI’s assertion that the case, which alleges the tech giant illegally used news articles to train its generative AI software and is now profiting unjustly, should be heard in the U.S. and therefore dismissed as out of jurisdiction.

The lawsuit, the first of its kind in Canada, was filed last December by a broad group of major Canadian news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC.

OpenAI, which is headquartered in San Francisco, argued that the alleged webcrawling of news content and training of the ChatGPT large language model, also known a

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