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Ziff Davis filed 1st Amended Complaint v. OpenAI, in MDL case
Read more: Ziff Davis filed 1st Amended Complaint v. OpenAI, in MDL caseOn July 7, 2025, Ziff Davis filed a First Amended Complaint against OpenAI, now in the MDL case, In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation before Judge Stein. Ziff Davis is the media company that owns CNET, Mashable, ZDNet, IGN, PC Mag, MedPage Today, and a host of other online publications. It alleges copyright infringement in…
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OpenAI adds more lawyers to MDL case, now totaling 55 attorneys. Is that enough?
Read more: OpenAI adds more lawyers to MDL case, now totaling 55 attorneys. Is that enough?OpenAI keeps adding attorneys to its defense in the MDL Litigation involving 13 lawsuits. Recent additions: With the recent additions, OpenAI has 55 lawyers in its defense team. Seems like an all lawyers on deck situation. But do you think it’s enough?
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Magistrate Judge sets June 26, 11:30 AM for conference over output logs of ChatGPT
Read more: Magistrate Judge sets June 26, 11:30 AM for conference over output logs of ChatGPTMagistrate Judge Ona Wang has scheduled June 26, 2025 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM for a conference to resolve the outstanding–and contentious–dispute over how much of ChatGPT’s output logs must be preserved and produced by OpenAI. The Order of Judge Wang comes with detailed instructions on what the parties must do: The Court has…
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OpenAI MDL litigation heats up. 48 filings in past 2 days.
Read more: OpenAI MDL litigation heats up. 48 filings in past 2 days.In the past two days, 48 filings were made by the various parties in the In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation. I guess that’s why OpenAI needs 50 lawyers. I am not sure how many law clerks Magistrate Judge Wang has. But hopefully it’s several.
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OpenAI proposes 217 hours of depositions for OpenAI witnesses. Plaintiffs want 255 more hours. Open says Plaintiffs asked irrelevant questions, including: What’s your least favorite Joyce novel?
Read more: OpenAI proposes 217 hours of depositions for OpenAI witnesses. Plaintiffs want 255 more hours. Open says Plaintiffs asked irrelevant questions, including: What’s your least favorite Joyce novel?Interesting disagreement in the MDL litigation, In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, over the number of hours the plaintiffs should get for the depositions of OpenAI witnesses. One of the greatest efficiencies of MDL Litigation is the streamlining of depositions and avoidance of repetitive depositions of the same witness. Plaintiffs want 255 hours, not including…
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Sam Altman raises privacy concerns over Judge’s order that all ChatGPT user chat logs must be preserved. Calls for “AI privilege” to protect people’s chats.
Read more: Sam Altman raises privacy concerns over Judge’s order that all ChatGPT user chat logs must be preserved. Calls for “AI privilege” to protect people’s chats.After filing an objection with Judge Stein, OpenAI took to the court of public opinion to seek the reversal of Magistrate Judge Wang’s broad order requiring OpenAI to preserve all ChatGPT logs of people’s chats. Altman tweeted about OpenAI’s blog post, which invokes privacy as a core basis for their objection to Judge Wang’s Order.…
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OpenAI objects to Magistrate Judge Wang’s order to preserve all user logs
Read more: OpenAI objects to Magistrate Judge Wang’s order to preserve all user logsOpenAI filed an objection to Judge Stein asking him to overturn Magistrate Judge Wang’s recent order to preserve all output logs from ChatGPT usage, in response to the New York Times’ allegation that OpenAI destroyed output logs that should have been preserved and produced during discovery. OpenAI is also seeking oral argument. Summary of OpenAI’s…
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Judge Stein appoints Justin A. Nelson of Susman Godfey as Interim Lead Class Counsel in MDL suits v. OpenAI
Read more: Judge Stein appoints Justin A. Nelson of Susman Godfey as Interim Lead Class Counsel in MDL suits v. OpenAIJudge Stein is moving the MDL litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft forward. Upon the motion of the Authors Guild, the Judge just appointed Justin A. Nelson, a partner at Susman Godfrey, as the interim lead class counsel for plaintiffs. Judge Stein rejected the proposed bifurcation of suits submitted by Nelson and Rachel Geman, seeking the…
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Judge Stein opinion rejecting OpenAI’s request for discovery of New York Times’ use of AI and revenues. Is it reversible error?
Read more: Judge Stein opinion rejecting OpenAI’s request for discovery of New York Times’ use of AI and revenues. Is it reversible error?In a 12-page opinion, Judge Sidney Stein agreed with Magistrate Judge Ona Wang’s denial of OpenAI’s motion to compel (1) the New York Times to produce information about the Times’s own use of AI tools, as well as its alleged decreases in revenues and Times’ licensing efforts; and (2) the Authors Guild book plaintiffs to…
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Judge Stein issues case management order for MDL suits v. OpenAI
Read more: Judge Stein issues case management order for MDL suits v. OpenAIWhat a busy day it was. The first conference for the 13 lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft convened. Judge Stein appointed the leadership counsel for the newspaper cases, but asked the class plaintiffs (for the book authors’ suits) to select a single interim class counsel, contrary to their proposal for a committee approach. Wow, that…