OpenAI Fights Authors' Demand For Info On $1B Disney Deal

By Bonnie Eslinger ( January 8, 2026, 9:32 PM EST) -- OpenAI urged a New York federal judge Thursday to reject a request from authors for details of its newly struck $1 billion licensing agreement with Disney, saying the terms are irrelevant to claims that the company unlawfully used the authors' copyrighted works, because the deal doesn't involve textual works....

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