Summary
Ziff Davis sued OpenAI alleging its online publications were used to train ChatGPT without permission, claiming direct and contributory copyright infringement, DMCA violations including removal and distribution of copyright management information and circumvention of technological measures, federal trademark dilution, and state law claims for unjust enrichment, dilution, and injury to business reputation. The case proceeds under the Copyright Act, DMCA, Lanham Act, and Delaware state law in SDNY (1:25-cv-04315); the court partially denied OpenAI's motion to dismiss, dismissing the unjust enrichment claim as preempted and rejecting robots.txt as a DMCA technological measure while advancing other claims, with discovery ongoing. The case relates to similar actions like New York Times v. Micro
Case details
- Court
- SDNY
- Docket number
- 1:25-cv-04315
- Filed
- May 22, 2025
- Status
- Active
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