In Re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation

  1. August 14, 2026

    OpenAI Fights Sanctions Bid In News Copyright MDL

    OpenAI on Friday urged a New York federal judge to reject sanctions that could bar it from relying on a 20 million-chat evidence sample in copyright litigation brought by The New York Times and other news organizations, arguing it did not violate a preservation order or misrepresent its ability to search for copyrighted material.

  2. August 06, 2026

    NYT, Daily News Blocked From Recasting Some AI Claims

    A New York federal judge shot down bids from the New York Times and New York Daily News to amend their contributory infringement claims against Microsoft Corp. in a suit alleging that copyrighted content was used to train artificial intelligence.

  3. July 09, 2026

    OpenAI Accused Of Hiding Evidence In NYT Copyright Fight

    The New York Times and other news organizations suing OpenAI Inc. for copyright infringement asked a New York federal judge on Thursday to sanction the company, accusing it of deleting ChatGPT conversation logs and concealing for two years that it possessed tools to search for plaintiffs' content in training data and ChatGPT outputs.

  4. June 26, 2026

    NY Times, Other News Orgs Reframe AI Claims In Wake Of Cox

    The New York Times has expanded its suit against Microsoft alleging copyrighted content was used to train artificial intelligence, while trimming some contributory infringement claims in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's Cox ruling, a move that was followed by a group of regional newspapers requesting to do the same.

  5. June 11, 2026

    OpenAI Says High Court Curbed Some News Org IP Claims

    OpenAI told a New York federal judge Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Cox v. Sony decision bars a contributory infringement claim brought by four news companies accusing the artificial intelligence company of using their copyrighted materials to train ChatGPT, saying the high court's ruling eliminates the legal theory on which the plaintiffs rely.

  6. May 22, 2026

    OpenAI Must Produce Musk Case Depos In NY Copyright MDL

    OpenAI was ordered to turn over deposition testimony from three executives that was taken in the course of Elon Musk's California case challenging the company's conversion into a for-profit entity to a group of authors and news organizations suing over the alleged use of copyrighted content to train artificial intelligence models.

  7. May 12, 2026

    Authors Accuse OpenAI Of Arguing Differently On Each Coast

    An attorney representing authors accusing OpenAI of feeding their copyrighted works into training data for large language models told a New York federal magistrate judge Tuesday that the AI startup was asserting vastly different positions in New York and in an ongoing trial in California about whether it ever intended to become a for-profit enterprise.

  8. April 08, 2026

    OpenAI Witness Was Unprepared In IP MDL Depo, Judge Finds

    A New York federal judge has given news organizations and authors additional time to depose an OpenAI employee in litigation accusing the artificial intelligence company of using copyrighted material to train ChatGPT, saying the employee's lack of preparation and OpenAI counsel's "pattern of repeated objections" impeded his earlier deposition.

  9. March 16, 2026

    Encyclopedia Britannica Latest To Lob IP Claims At OpenAI

    Encyclopedia Britannica and its American subsidiary Merriam-Webster on Friday became the latest to accuse ChatGPT maker OpenAI Inc. of copyright infringement, claiming that the artificial intelligence products infringe their copyrights in multiple ways, according to a complaint filed in New York federal court.

  10. March 10, 2026

    OpenAI Must Produce Chat Logs, Exec Diary In Copyright MDL

    A federal magistrate judge in New York ordered OpenAI to furnish an executive's personal journal along with tens of millions of ChatGPT logs in response to requests by news organizations and authors in their copyright litigation against the artificial intelligence company.