January 06, 2026
Bestselling authors accusing OpenAI of unlawfully using their copyrighted works to train ChatGPT have asked a New York federal judge to order the company to produce details of its $1 billion licensing deal with Disney announced last month, saying the agreement could show the "feasibility" of a licensing market for AI training.
January 05, 2026
OpenAI must turn over 20 million anonymized user logs to The New York Times, authors and other plaintiffs pursuing claims that the artificial intelligence company improperly used their copyrighted content, a New York federal judge ruled Monday.
January 02, 2026
U.S. federal courts this year will continue to review consequential copyright infringement suits involving artificial intelligence, while appeals court decisions remain pending in a pair of notable fair use cases involving ROSS Intelligence and Microsoft. Here are Law360's picks for copyright cases to watch in 2026.
December 22, 2025
A class of authors suing OpenAI over copyright infringement claims has asked a Manhattan federal judge to leave in place a magistrate judge's order for the artificial intelligence startup to turn over its in-house attorneys' communications regarding the deletion of a set of pirated books that were allegedly used to train ChatGPT.
November 24, 2025
A New York federal magistrate judge on Monday ordered OpenAI's in-house attorneys to share their internal communications regarding deleted training datasets with authors suing over the alleged use of copyrighted works to train ChatGPT, rejecting OpenAI's argument that the communications are privileged.
November 10, 2025
A federal magistrate judge has ordered OpenAI to turn over 20 million anonymized user logs to news outlets that claim the artificial intelligence company made improper use of their copyrighted content.
October 28, 2025
OpenAI cannot shave copyright infringement claims alleging it downloaded books from illegal online sources out of litigation brought by some of the biggest names in literature and journalism, a Manhattan federal judge ruled, rejecting the artificial intelligence company's argument that the allegation violated a court order barring new claims.
October 27, 2025
Some of the biggest names in literature and journalism can pursue their claim of direct copyright infringement against OpenAI based on the outputs of ChatGPT, a Manhattan federal judge ruled Monday, saying the complaint "squarely alleges" actual copying of the writers' works and substantially similar artificial intelligence outputs.
October 08, 2025
OpenAI told a Manhattan federal judge Wednesday that a group of authors should not be allowed to argue that ChatGPT spits out summaries or verbatim portions of their books in a copyright infringement case, saying this is an additional theory of infringement that would make discovery more onerous than it already is.
September 10, 2025
A proposed class of authors suing over the alleged use of works to train ChatGPT has asked a Manhattan federal judge to force Microsoft to hand over documents they said could be a "smoking gun of copyright infringement," while a group of news organizations said OpenAI should turn over materials on low-quality, artificial intelligence-generated news sites.