To whom it may concern:
RE: Cease and desist notice – copyright violation
I am legal counsel to Torstar Corporation (“Torstar”), parent company of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited (“TSNL”) and Metroland Media Group Ltd. (“MMG”). This letter serves as notice that your website is hosting material that infringes the copyright of TSNL and MMG.
In particular, your FineWeb dataset (https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb), described on your website as “a new, large-scale (15-trillion tokens, 44TB disk space) dataset for LLM pretraining” derived from “96 CommonCrawl snapshots” contains hundreds—if not thousands—of copyrighted works owned by TSNL and MMG. A full list of Torstar-owned domains is included as Schedule “A” to this letter (the “Domains”).
TSNL and MMG respectively own the copyright in the content published on the Domains, including all headlines and articles. I have a good faith belief that the use of the material that appears within the FineWeb dataset is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or by operation of law.
Your unauthorized reproduction of this material is therefore an infringement of our intellectual property rights, and we hereby demand that you immediately:
- cease and desist your unauthorized use of the content, and
- remove the infringing material from the FineWeb dataset.
If we do not receive a satisfactory response from you by January 31, 2025, we will have no choice but to consider pursuing all legal remedies necessary to prevent your unauthorized activities. Torstar, TSNL, and MMG expressly reserve their respective rights and remedies.
Please contact me at the email listed above indicating your prompt response.
Sincerely,
Schedule "A"
- startoronto.ca
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- actonfreepress.ca
- northbaynipissing.ca
- simcoe.com
- torstar.org
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- kingconnection.ca
- torstarmedia.ca
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- therecord.com
- halifaxstar.com
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- perthcourier.com
- yourclassifieds.ca
- riverdalemirror.ca
- grandmagazine.ca
- skbailey.com
- torontostarlink.ca
- ajaxnewsadvertiser.com
- goldbook.ca
- thetorontostar.org
- thisweekinrealestate.ca
- insidetoronto.ca
- hamiltonspectator.com
- carletonplacecanadian.ca
- atkinsonprinciples.org
- t-o.ca
- getthespec.ca
- georgetownindependent.ca
- newmarketera.com
- newinhomes.ca
- metrolandnorthmedia.com
- kitchener-waterloo.ca
- parrysoundnorthstar.com
- thekit.ca
- yourhome.ca
- muskokaregion.ca
- thestar.mobi
- tocontests.com
- durhamregion.com
- guelphmercurytribune.com
- lifenews.ca
- atkinsonfoundation.org
- theliberal.ca
- thetorontostar.net
- inportnews.com
- thelocalnews.ca
- almaguinnews.com
- ourwindsor.ca
- metrolandwebservices.com
- metroland.ca
- starmetromedia.ca
- lekit.ca
- niagaradailies.com
- torontostar.biz
- orilliatoday.ca
- torontostartravel.ca
- livedeal.ca
- smithsfallsrecordnews.com
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- thebarrieexaminer.com
- collingwoodconnection.com
- renfrewmercury.ca
- brightonindependent.ca
- peterboroughthisweek.com
- themississauganews.com
- glanbrookgazette.com
- democracyprojectmetroland.com
- starmetrolandmedia.ca
- nationalbridalshow.com
- torontostarclassifieds.ca
- torstar.co
- thereaderschoice.ca
- egexpress.ca
- portperrystar.com
- metronews.ca
- almontegazette.com
- torstar.net
- gettherecord.ca
- canadianimmigrant.ca
- tsnl.net
- nordstarcapital.ca
- wellandtribune.ca
- simpofly.ca
- hamiltonspectator.ca
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- arnpriorchronicleguide.ca
- caregivershow.ca
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- bradfordtopic.com
- mintoexpress.com
- innisfilexaminer.ca
- starmetromedia.com
- torstarlocal.ca
- theetobicokeguardian.com
- erinadvocate.com
- ottawastar.ca
- pelhamnews.ca
- aurorabanner.com
- thestar.bet
- georgetownindependent.com
- metroland.com
- zuza.ca
- theboltonenterprise.ca
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- atkinsononline.ca
- kitchenerwaterloo.ca
- thesaturdaystar.ca
- thetorontolocal.com
- tsw.ca
- torontosports.ca
- worldofwheelsmagazine.com
- perthcourier.ca
- muskokan.com
- carletonplacecanadian.com
- eastofthecity.com
- ancasternews.com
- walkerton.com
- cyberblue.ca
- torstarmarketing.com
- metrolanddigital.com
- stcatharinesstandard.ca
- huntsvilleforester.com
- caledonenterprise.com
- specauctions.com
- guelphtribune.ca
- sachem.com
- northumberlandtoday.com
- grimsbylincolnnews.com
- torontostar.ca
- stoneycreeknews.com
- westofthecity.com
- hamiltonspectator.net
- arnpriorchronicleguide.com
- burlingtonpost.ca
- markhameconomist.com
- recordauctions.ca
- waterlooregion.ca
- guelphmercurytribune.ca
- canadiensalecole.com
- themississauganews.ca
- parrysoundbeaconstar.com
- torontostar.net
- yrmg.ca
- metrolandstore.com
- northbaynipissing.com
- kitchenerpost.ca
- algonquinlife.ca
- forteriepost.com
- kemptvilleadvance.ca
- kwrecord.ca
- guelphmercury.ca
- thestar.dev
- togetherlocal.ca
- metrolandmedia.ca
- mississauganews.ca
- santaclausfund.ca
- simpofly.com
- forterietimes.com
- niagarathisweek.com
- thekawarthan.com
- dailystar.ca
- canadianstatesman.com
- torstarcorpaws.net
- boltonenterprise.ca
- miltoncanadianchampion.ca
- theenterprisebulletin.com
- thebramptonguardian.com
- independentfreepress.com
- portperrystar.ca
- metrolandmedia.com
- yourtoronto.ca
- durhamregion.ca
- inportnews.ca
- thepeterboroughexaminer.com
- torontostarauctions.ca
- torstar.biz
- metrolandwest.com
- stouffvillesun.com
- sachem.ca
- kitchener-waterloorecord.ca
- bramptonguardian.ca
- independentfreepress.ca
- torontostarsports.ca
- torstarcorp.net
- oakvillebeaver.com
- thestar.ca
- metrolandmediagroup.com
- thetopic.ca
- thegrand.ca
- atkinsonfdn.on.ca
- stouffvilletribune.com
- toronto.com