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 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.
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.
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.
April 03, 2025
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Thursday decided to centralize the pretrial work for a series of copyright infringement and Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawsuits against OpenAI in New York federal court.
December 06, 2024
OpenAI Inc. informed New York and California federal courts this week it plans to ask the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to centralize eight copyright infringement and Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawsuits — including a proposed class action — brought by content creators and publishers.
December 03, 2024
The New York Times, Daily News, other news organizations and writers can gain access to the social media messages of executives at OpenAI in their litigation accusing the company of using copyright-protected material to train ChatGPT after a New York judge rejected efforts to block the disclosure of the messages.
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.