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WikiHow Inc v OpenAI Inc

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Case Information
Case name WikiHow Inc v. OpenAI Inc[1]
Court U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York[1]
Docket 1:26-cv-07171[1]
Filed August 21, 2026[1]
Judge(s) Not identified in the sources reviewed.
Plaintiffs wikiHow, Inc.[1]
Defendants OpenAI, Inc. and related OpenAI entities listed in the complaint[1]
Case type Civil copyright action[1]
Claims / issues Direct and secondary copyright infringement; DMCA § 1202 CMI claims[1]
Status Complaint filed August 21, 2026. Later developments have not been verified.[1]

wikiHow, Inc. v. OpenAI, Inc. et al. is a copyright and Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York on August 21, 2026.[2]


Allegations

wikiHow alleges that OpenAI copied its articles to train large language models, retrieved and copied the articles through retrieval-augmented generation systems, and generated outputs reproducing protected expression.[2] The complaint says 1,211 copyright registrations cover 11,211 articles at issue.[2]

The complaint further alleges that OpenAI removed copyright-management information and that ChatGPT diverts readers and advertising revenue by supplying the substance of wikiHow articles without sending users to wikiHow.[2]

Procedural status

wikiHow filed the complaint and demanded a jury trial on August 21, 2026.[2]

Relief sought

wikiHow seeks injunctive relief, damages, disgorgement of profits attributable to the alleged infringement, and removal of the asserted works from OpenAI systems and datasets.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Court filing / case record, reviewed September 7, 2026
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 wikiHow, Inc. v. OpenAI, Inc. et al., Complaint, No. 1:26-cv-07171 (S.D.N.Y. filed August 21, 2026)
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