The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday edition that a copyright lawsuit filed against OpenAI in Ontario by news media organizations should be heard in the United States because the San Francisco-based company does not conduct business in the province, lawyers for OpenAI argued at a Superior Court hearing Wednesday. The Globe's Joe Castaldo writes that Canada's major news organizations, including The Globe, CBC and Postmedia, sued OpenAI last November for allegedly violating copyright law by scraping proprietary news content without consent or payment to train its models, such as those that power ChatGPT. Lawyers for OpenAI said that the Ontario court does not have jurisdiction because none of the corporate entities named as defendants in the suit conduct business in the province or have offices there. OpenAI's model training and Web-crawling activities occur elsewhere, the lawyers said at the hearing. "The conduct that is barely alleged in the statement of claim overwhelmingly occurs outside of Canada," said lawyer Marc Crandall, who represents OpenAI. "Conduct outside of Canada is not within the court's jurisdiction." The plaintiffs also include the Toronto Star, Metroland, Canadian Press and Radio-Canada.