Summary
Authors and copyright holders sued OpenAI in a consolidated multidistrict litigation, alleging OpenAI infringed their copyrights by downloading and reproducing their works to train large language models and generating infringing outputs via ChatGPT.[1][2][3] The case proceeds under the Copyright Act in the Southern District of New York, where the court denied OpenAI's motion to dismiss direct infringement claims, granted in part plaintiffs' motion to compel discovery on deleted training datasets after finding waiver of attorney-client privilege, and issued preservation orders for AI data.[1][2][3][4][5] It consolidates twelve actions by a class of authors alleging willful infringement, with rulings allowing claims to advance to discovery on actual copying and substantial similarity.[1][3][
Case details
- Court
- SDNY
- Docket number
- 1:25-md-03143
- Filed
- Apr 11, 2025
- Status
- Active
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