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OpenAI communications would bolster US circumvention claim, Ziff Davis says

By Emma Whitford and Samuel Rubenfeld ( November 18, 2025, 22:59 GMT | Insight) -- Ziff Davis, the online publisher of websites such as Mashable and LifeHacker, is seeking to amend its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI for the second time, saying new evidence — including redacted internal OpenAI communications — support its allegations of nefarious data scraping. Ziff Davis, the online publisher of websites such as Mashable and LifeHacker, is seeking to amend its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI for the second time, saying new evidence — including redacted internal OpenAI communications — support its allegations of nefarious data scraping....

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