US judge refuses OpenAI’s motion to dismiss New York Times copyright infringement claims
Global Legal Post
A New York district judge has issued an opinion denying ChatGPT creator OpenAI’s motion to dismiss copyright infringement claims brought by the New York Times (NYT) and the Daily News publishers over using their content to train AI models.
Judge Sidney Stein on 4 April, did, however, grant some of OpenAI’s requests including removing several of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims.
The consolidated lawsuits are part of a wave of litigation engulfing tech companies brought by authors, publishers and artists over how their copyrighted material is being used without their permission to train AI models.
The New York Times had accused OpenAI and its parent company Microsoft of copying and using millions of NYT copyrighted articles to train automated chatbots that now compete with the NYT as a news source. The other plaintiff, the Daily News, encompasses eight news organisations including the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune. It asserted similar copyright infringement claims.
OpenAI tried to remove the copyright infringement claims arising more than three years before the NYT and the Daily News plaintiffs filed their complaints (before 27 December 27, 2020 for the NYT and 30 April, 2021 for the Daily News).
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