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In Re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation

  1. February 06, 2026

    OpenAI Can Keep Atty Comms Secret After All, Judge Says

    A New York federal judge Friday set aside a magistrate judge's order requiring OpenAI's in-house attorneys to share their internal communications regarding deleted training datasets with authors suing over alleged copyright infringement, holding that the conclusions underlying that decision were "clearly erroneous or contrary to law."

  2. February 05, 2026

    OpenAI Rips Bid For Exec's Personal Journal In IP Litigation

    OpenAI urged a New York federal judge Wednesday to reject a demand by authors and newspapers for the OpenAI president's "personal journal" in their copyright litigation, arguing the request is unwarranted and a "severe invasion of privacy," even if excerpts were recently revealed in OpenAI's separate litigation with Elon Musk.

  3. January 20, 2026

    Judge Mostly Rejects Discovery Requests In OpenAI MDL

    A Manhattan federal magistrate judge largely rejected a series of requests from a group of authors and news publishers to expand discovery in a copyright infringement case against OpenAI, but directed the parties to confer on some topics to discuss production of certain materials.

  4. January 09, 2026

    News Orgs. Want OpenAI Sanctioned In Copyright MDL

    News organizations, including The New York Times, are sparring with OpenAI over allegations that the artificial intelligence company didn't properly maintain output logs of its ChatGPT chatbot in multidistrict copyright litigation in New York federal court.

  5. January 08, 2026

    OpenAI Fights Authors' Demand For Info On $1B Disney Deal

    OpenAI urged a New York federal judge Thursday to reject a request from authors for details of its newly struck $1 billion licensing agreement with Disney, saying the terms are irrelevant to claims that the company unlawfully used the authors' copyrighted works, because the deal doesn't involve textual works.

  6. January 06, 2026

    Authors Demand OpenAI's $1B Disney Deal Details For IP Suit

    Bestselling authors accusing OpenAI of unlawfully using their copyrighted works to train ChatGPT have asked a New York federal judge to order the company to produce details of its $1 billion licensing deal with Disney announced last month, saying the agreement could show the "feasibility" of a licensing market for AI training.

  7. January 05, 2026

    OpenAI Told To Produce 20M ChatGPT Logs In Copyright Case

    OpenAI must turn over 20 million anonymized user logs to The New York Times, authors and other plaintiffs pursuing claims that the artificial intelligence company improperly used their copyrighted content, a New York federal judge ruled Monday.

  8. January 02, 2026

    Copyright Cases To Watch In 2026

    U.S. federal courts this year will continue to review consequential copyright infringement suits involving artificial intelligence, while appeals court decisions remain pending in a pair of notable fair use cases involving ROSS Intelligence and Microsoft. Here are Law360's picks for copyright cases to watch in 2026.

  9. December 22, 2025

    Authors Push For OpenAI Counsel Talks On Pirated Books

    A class of authors suing OpenAI over copyright infringement claims has asked a Manhattan federal judge to leave in place a magistrate judge's order for the artificial intelligence startup to turn over its in-house attorneys' communications regarding the deletion of a set of pirated books that were allegedly used to train ChatGPT.

  10. November 24, 2025

    OpenAI Attys Must Share Internal Comms In Copyright MDL

    A New York federal magistrate judge on Monday ordered OpenAI's in-house attorneys to share their internal communications regarding deleted training datasets with authors suing over the alleged use of copyrighted works to train ChatGPT, rejecting OpenAI's argument that the communications are privileged.