A small-town newspaper press with stacked papers, a publisher carrying a folder up courthouse steps in Mississippi

Rows of file boxes in a court registry, a clerk adding another box to a long line of them

A judge at a bench with two folders side by side

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Morning Brief · November 4th 2026

A second Mississippi newspaper suit brings the US count of AI copyright cases to 161

Boone Newsmedia sued Microsoft and OpenAI in the Southern District of Mississippi, by one unofficial tracker's count the 161st such case and about the 30th against OpenAI. The same plaintiffs' lawyers already have a suit there, Emmerich Newspapers v. Microsoft, before Judge Wingate. SourcesC

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CBoone Newsmedia v. Microsoft (ChatGPT Is Eating the World)chatgptiseatingtheworld.com

This story ran in the Morning Brief of November 4th 2026.

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