July 09, 2026
The New York Times and other news organizations suing OpenAI Inc. for copyright infringement asked a New York federal judge on Thursday to sanction the company, accusing it of deleting ChatGPT conversation logs and concealing for two years that it possessed tools to search for plaintiffs' content in training data and ChatGPT outputs.
June 26, 2026
The New York Times has expanded its suit against Microsoft alleging copyrighted content was used to train artificial intelligence, while trimming some contributory infringement claims in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's Cox ruling, a move that was followed by a group of regional newspapers requesting to do the same.
June 11, 2026
OpenAI told a New York federal judge Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Cox v. Sony decision bars a contributory infringement claim brought by four news companies accusing the artificial intelligence company of using their copyrighted materials to train ChatGPT, saying the high court's ruling eliminates the legal theory on which the plaintiffs rely.
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."