It looks the parties in the New York Times v. OpenAI lawsuit agree that a memo and an email that the Copyright Clearance Center sent to the New York Times should remain under seal. They are exhibits to OpenAI’s motion. You can learn more about CCC’s AI licensing program here.
Said the New York Times: “Exhibits A and B to OpenAI’s Objection (Dkt. 372-1 and Dkt. 372-2) should remain sealed. Exhibit A is a memorandum from The Copyright Clearance Center (“CCC”) to The Times addressing plans for rightsholders to collectively license copyrighted content for use within AI systems. CCC labeled this memorandum as ‘Confidential to the [] Copyright Clearance Center.’
“Exhibit B is an email exchange between CCC and The Times relating to the Exhibit A memorandum. Counsel for The Times conferred with CCC to discuss this sealing response, and CCC believes these materials should be sealed. Finally, OpenAI’s Objection brief describes and directly quotes from the Exhibit A memorandum, Dkt. 372, and CCC also believes these direct quotes should be redacted. A revised version of OpenAI’s Objection is attached to this filing, which only redacts the direct quotes to Exhibit A, as opposed to OpenAI’s description of Exhibit A.”