Ziff Davis, the company that owns CNET, Mashable, ZDNet, IGN, PC Mag, MedPage Today, and a host of other online publications, sued OpenAI in Delaware for a host of claims including copyright infringement, DMCA 1202(b)(1), (b)(3), removal of CMI claims, and trademark dilution. The case has not been assigned to a judge yet, but we can expect OpenAI to petition to transfer this case to the MDL court, Judge Sidney Stein in New York.
Ziff Davis is represented by:
- Kristen Healey Cramer, BENESCH, FRIEDLANDER, COPLAN & ARONOFF LLP
- Noelle B. Torrice, BENESCH, FRIEDLANDER, COPLAN & ARONOFF LLP
- Lacy H. (“Lance”) Koonce, III, KLARIS LAW PLLC
- Matthew Leish, KLARIS LAW PLLC
- Gili Karev, KLARIS LAW PLLC
- Mariella Salazar, KLARIS LAW PLLC
- Clara Cassan, KLARIS LAW PLLC
Ziff Davis has benefited from the 13 other copyright lawsuits filed against OpenAI. Some of the factual allegations, however, involve recent activities of OpenAI, such as for its alleged scraping of content: “119. Remarkably, the GPTBot activity—on the above website and other Ziff Davis websites—significantly increased after Ziff Davis wrote to OpenAI on May 20, 2024 demanding that it stop infringing Ziff Davis content. 120. This spike in activity also occurred contemporaneously with OpenAI’s public statement that it had “recently begun training its next frontier model.”
Excerpts of copyright infringement claim
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