Summary
Authors Paul Tremblay, Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, and Christopher Golden sued OpenAI, alleging their copyrighted books were used without permission to train ChatGPT, which can generate accurate summaries of the works. The case asserts claims under the Copyright Act for direct and vicarious infringement, the DMCA, California unfair competition law, negligence, and unjust enrichment; a Northern District of California court partially dismissed claims in February 2024, allowing direct copyright infringement and an unfair competition theory to proceed while dismissing others with leave to amend, and later ordered discovery of AI prompts in August 2024. It represents one of several consolidated putative class actions by authors against OpenAI for AI training on literary works, part of broa
Case details
- Court
- SDNY
- Docket number
- 1:25-cv-03482
- Filed
- Apr 27, 2025
- Status
- Active
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