The Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc. v. OpenAI, Inc. et al

  1. January 14, 2025

    OpenAI Products Not Designed To Evade Paywalls, Judge Told

    Lawyers for OpenAI and Microsoft spent Tuesday morning trying to convince a New York federal judge to trim down news organizations' copyright infringement cases against them, saying large language models aren't designed to spit out entire articles so that readers can avoid paywalls.

  2. January 09, 2025

    IP Forecast: OpenAI, Microsoft Look To Toss NYT Case

    OpenAI and its backers at Microsoft will try persuading a New York judge to dismiss one of the major copyright suits against them, with arguments that using news stories to train the startup's artificial intelligence model is a "transformative" use. Here's a spotlight on where that case stands — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.

  3. December 06, 2024

    OpenAI Unveils Plans To Ask JPML To Centralize IP Suits

    OpenAI Inc. informed New York and California federal courts this week it plans to ask the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to centralize eight copyright infringement and Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawsuits — including a proposed class action — brought by content creators and publishers.

  4. November 06, 2024

    News Outlet Fighting To Keep OpenAI, Microsoft IP Suit Alive

    The Center for Investigative Reporting has told a Manhattan federal judge that its copyright infringement complaint against Microsoft and OpenAI for allegedly using its content to train artificial intelligence models raises existential issues for news organizations that should survive the tech companies' push for dismissal.

  5. October 28, 2024

    OpenAI Pushes To Consolidate Discovery In Copyright Cases

    Microsoft and OpenAI say that concerns from news outfits over consolidating discovery in their ChatGPT copyright lawsuits are "misplaced" and call a request to schedule more depositions "wholly unnecessary."

  6. October 21, 2024

    In OpenAI Copyright Case, Court Told, 'Too Many Cooks'

    Lawyers for some of the media companies and groups hitting up OpenAI and Microsoft with copyright cases say they have major reservations about marrying their cases, warning about rushed discovery and "forcing too many cooks into the same kitchen."

  7. September 04, 2024

    OpenAI Wants News Org.'s Copyright Suit Cut To Core Issue

    OpenAI has asked a New York federal judge to dismiss multiple claims from a copyright suit brought against it and Microsoft Corp. by the Center for Investigative Reporting Inc., arguing the case should be pared down to the "core issue" of how the fair use doctrine applies to artificial intelligence training.

  8. June 27, 2024

    OpenAI Faces Latest Copyright Suit From News Organization

    Another media organization has filed a copyright infringement suit against OpenAI over how the Microsoft-backed brand trains its ChatGPT software, this one on Thursday coming from a nonprofit that recently began operating the political magazine Mother Jones.

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