May 22, 2026
OpenAI was ordered to turn over deposition testimony from three executives that was taken in the course of Elon Musk's California case challenging the company's conversion into a for-profit entity to a group of authors and news organizations suing over the alleged use of copyrighted content to train artificial intelligence models.
May 12, 2026
An attorney representing authors accusing OpenAI of feeding their copyrighted works into training data for large language models told a New York federal magistrate judge Tuesday that the AI startup was asserting vastly different positions in New York and in an ongoing trial in California about whether it ever intended to become a for-profit enterprise.
April 08, 2026
A New York federal judge has given news organizations and authors additional time to depose an OpenAI employee in litigation accusing the artificial intelligence company of using copyrighted material to train ChatGPT, saying the employee's lack of preparation and OpenAI counsel's "pattern of repeated objections" impeded his earlier deposition.
March 16, 2026
Encyclopedia Britannica and its American subsidiary Merriam-Webster on Friday became the latest to accuse ChatGPT maker OpenAI Inc. of copyright infringement, claiming that the artificial intelligence products infringe their copyrights in multiple ways, according to a complaint filed in New York federal court.
March 10, 2026
A federal magistrate judge in New York ordered OpenAI to furnish an executive's personal journal along with tens of millions of ChatGPT logs in response to requests by news organizations and authors in their copyright litigation against the artificial intelligence company.
February 11, 2026
A New York federal magistrate judge on Wednesday ordered OpenAI to respond to questions about its "Project Giraffe," which plaintiffs suing over the company's use of copyrighted material in ChatGPT training describe as an effort to identify and block infringing outputs.
February 06, 2026
A New York federal judge Friday set aside a magistrate judge's order requiring OpenAI's in-house attorneys to share their internal communications regarding deleted training datasets with authors suing over alleged copyright infringement, holding that the conclusions underlying that decision were "clearly erroneous or contrary to law."
February 05, 2026
OpenAI urged a New York federal judge Wednesday to reject a demand by authors and newspapers for the OpenAI president's "personal journal" in their copyright litigation, arguing the request is unwarranted and a "severe invasion of privacy," even if excerpts were recently revealed in OpenAI's separate litigation with Elon Musk.
January 20, 2026
A Manhattan federal magistrate judge largely rejected a series of requests from a group of authors and news publishers to expand discovery in a copyright infringement case against OpenAI, but directed the parties to confer on some topics to discuss production of certain materials.
January 09, 2026
News organizations, including The New York Times, are sparring with OpenAI over allegations that the artificial intelligence company didn't properly maintain output logs of its ChatGPT chatbot in multidistrict copyright litigation in New York federal court.