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OpenAI files amended Answers to Complaints in News MDL case
Read more: OpenAI files amended Answers to Complaints in News MDL caseOpenAI filed its Amended Answers in three related News cases. Below is the Amended Answer in the New York Times case to the Second Amended Complaint: DOWNLOAD OPENAI’S AMENDED ANSWER DOWNLOAD NEW YORK TIMES SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT
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OpenAI enlists Lisa Blatt to handle appeal to Judge Stein of major discovery ruling by Magistrate Judge Wang
Read more: OpenAI enlists Lisa Blatt to handle appeal to Judge Stein of major discovery ruling by Magistrate Judge WangOpenAI enlisted Lisa Blatt of Williams & Connolly, the prominent Supreme Court litigator, to handle the appeal to Judge Stein of the controversial discovery decision by Magistrate Judge Wang finding OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege. Blatt “has argued 55 cases before the United States Supreme Court and has an 81% win rate in cases decided,” including successfully the…
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Magistrate Judge Wang stays her order that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege, pending appeal to Judge Stein
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang stays her order that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege, pending appeal to Judge SteinIn an omnibus discovery order, Magistrate Judge Wang stayed in part her ruling that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege regarding attorney communications related to Books 1-2 datasets’ deletion and Library Genesis. OpenAI plans on appealing the decision to Judge Stein. Related Stories DOWNLOAD MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S AND JUDGE STEIN’S ORDERS
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Deletion Is Not Infringement
Read more: Deletion Is Not InfringementThis is an excerpt from my earlier analysis of Magistrate Judge Wang’s decision holding that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege in part because willful infringement has been alleged, thereby putting OpenAI’s state of mind “at issue.” For all of my analysis, see Related Stories below. Deletion Is Not Infringement And, even if OpenAI employees relied…
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Judge Stein questions the timeliness of OpenAI’s Rule 72(a) objection to Magistrate Judge’s order on 20M chat logs
Read more: Judge Stein questions the timeliness of OpenAI’s Rule 72(a) objection to Magistrate Judge’s order on 20M chat logsJudge Stein has set the briefing schedule for OpenAI’s upcoming Rule 72(a) objection to Magistrate Judge Wang’s order requiring OpenAI to produce 20 million anonymized user chat logs from ChatGPT use. Surprisingly, Judge Stein has asked OpenAI to brief whether its Nov. 24, 2025 objection pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 72(a) is timely.…
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U.S. News sues OpenAI for use of U.S. News rankings, articles. 16th copyright suit v. OpenAI. 63rd copyright suit v. AI companies.
Read more: U.S. News sues OpenAI for use of U.S. News rankings, articles. 16th copyright suit v. OpenAI. 63rd copyright suit v. AI companies.OpenAI got hit with another copyright suit. U.S. News just sued OpenAI for its alleged use of U.S. News rankings and articles. This is the 16th copyright lawsuit filed against OpenAI and the 63rd copyright lawsuit filed against AI companies in the United States. The Complaint alleges:”OpenAI created and distributed reproductions of the USNWR’s material…
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More on why Magistrate Judge’s opinion that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege looks wrong
Read more: More on why Magistrate Judge’s opinion that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege looks wrongMagistrate Judge Wang issued a controversial 28-page opinion concluding that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege for communications of in-house attorneys in 2022 related to OpenAI’s deletion of Books 1, 2 datasets. Judge Wang did so on 2 grounds: (1) OpenAI putatively disclosed a “privileged reason” for the deletion based on “non-use” and (2) OpenAI put…
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Is Magistrate Judge’s decision on OpenAI’s waiver of attorney-client privilege due to willfulness of civil infringment but no waiver on criminal infringement contradictory?
Read more: Is Magistrate Judge’s decision on OpenAI’s waiver of attorney-client privilege due to willfulness of civil infringment but no waiver on criminal infringement contradictory?One of the biggest issues that has arisen in the copyright litigation against OpenAI is whether OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege as to communications in-house OpenAI lawyers made regarding the deletion of Books1 and Books2 datasets in mid-2022 after OpenAI torrented them in 2018 and then used them to train an earlier AI model(s) of…
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Microsoft letter to Judge Wang re: unable to find Bing Chat CTR data
Read more: Microsoft letter to Judge Wang re: unable to find Bing Chat CTR dataMicrosoft says it has extensively searched for and cannot find Bing Chat CTR (Click-Through-Rate). The information is related to the search engines using RAG, or retrieval augmented generation (combining AI with real time information from search). DOWNLOAD MICROSOFT’S REDACTED LETTER