October 25, 2024
California labor law doesn't shield OpenAI from producing CEO Sam Altman's and President Greg Brockman's texts and social media messages relevant to a copyright infringement lawsuit, authors alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally used their copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence program ChatGPT have told a New York federal judge.
October 21, 2024
Lawyers for some of the media companies and groups hitting up OpenAI and Microsoft with copyright cases say they have major reservations about marrying their cases, warning about rushed discovery and "forcing too many cooks into the same kitchen."
April 02, 2024
A New York federal judge has refused to let copyright holders who have sued in California into litigation in the Empire State accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of copyright infringement.
January 01, 2024
The coming year's big cases developing in New York courts involve the protracted legal woes of Donald Trump, bribery allegations against Sen. Bob Menendez and a high-stakes fight over whether artificial intelligence has been purposefully deployed to engage in flagrant copyright theft.
January 01, 2024
Love it or hate it, the growing adoption of generative artificial intelligence tools has given society no choice but to grapple with their novel challenges, and in 2024, trailblazing litigation over AI's impact on intellectual property, civil liberties and privacy will be hashed out in courtrooms across the country.
December 05, 2023
Microsoft Corp. has been added to an amended putative copyright class action against OpenAI filed by a group of writers who accuse the artificial intelligence research company of using protected works to "train" its generative AI product ChatGPT, arguing OpenAI's training couldn't have happened without Microsoft's "financial and technical support."
September 20, 2023
OpenAI Inc. is facing more infringement allegations that the artificial intelligence research company is using protected works to train its generative AI product, ChatGPT, after a professional writers organization and a dozen best-selling authors filed a proposed copyright class action against it.