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List of OpenAI’s losses in discovery grows long. Is it the canary in the coal mine for OpenAI?
Read more: List of OpenAI’s losses in discovery grows long. Is it the canary in the coal mine for OpenAI?Back in December 2024, OpenAI probably had different hopes when seeking to transfer all the copyright lawsuits against it — then only 8 lawsuits — to one Multi-District Litigation court. Flash forward a year later. And OpenAI’s decision looks like it backfired. The copyright lawsuits have doubled since then, to now 16 lawsuits against OpenAI…
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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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OpenAI asks Judge Stein to stay Magistrate Judge Wang’s order finding OpenAI waived attorney client privilege
Read more: OpenAI asks Judge Stein to stay Magistrate Judge Wang’s order finding OpenAI waived attorney client privilegeThe stakes are high. Following its motion for a stay filed with Magistrate Judge Wang, apparently still pending, OpenAI find another motion, this time with Judge Stein, to stay Magistrate Judge Wang’s order finding that OpenAI waived its attorney client privilege as to communications related to Books 1 and 2 datasets. DOWNLOAD THE MOTION Related…
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Magistrate Judge’s opinion finding OpenAI waived attorney-client privilege ignores Supreme Court, 2d Circuit precedent
Read more: Magistrate Judge’s opinion finding OpenAI waived attorney-client privilege ignores Supreme Court, 2d Circuit precedentThis article is the third in a series reviewing Magistrate Judge Wang’s controversial opinion finding that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege regarding the reasons OpenAI deleted Books 1, 2 datasets in 2022. For the first 2 reviews, click below. Today’s article will look more closely at the key Supreme Court precedents and Second Circuit precedents…
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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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OpenAI asks Magistrate Judge Wang to stay controversial ruling on waiver of attorney-client privilege as it appeals to Judge Stein
Read more: OpenAI asks Magistrate Judge Wang to stay controversial ruling on waiver of attorney-client privilege as it appeals to Judge SteinOpenAI has asked Magistrate Judge Wang to stay her controversial decision holding that OpenAI has waived its attorney client privilege related to communications on “non-use” and “reasons” for deleting Books1 and Books2 before any copyright litigation started. OpenAI will appeal the decision to Judge Stein.
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After OpenAI loses attorney-client privilege re: Books1, 2 datasets, ChatGPT says OpenAI’s position “is significantly weaker” and in “real danger” of liability.
Read more: After OpenAI loses attorney-client privilege re: Books1, 2 datasets, ChatGPT says OpenAI’s position “is significantly weaker” and in “real danger” of liability.The string of losses OpenAI has suffered recently in the MDL litigation should give OpenAI pause. For a brief summary of some of these losses: What does ChatGPT think now of OpenAI’s chances in the litigation? At least at the moment, it’s hard for OpenAI to be optimistic about the MDL litigation. There are a…
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Judge Stein wants another oral argument on OpenAI’s motion to dismiss Ziff Davis’s First Amended Complaint on Nov. 13, 2025, 11:30AM
Read more: Judge Stein wants another oral argument on OpenAI’s motion to dismiss Ziff Davis’s First Amended Complaint on Nov. 13, 2025, 11:30AMJudge Stein wants further oral argument on OpenAI’s motion to dismiss Ziff Davis’s First Amended Complaint. He scheduled one for Nov. 13, 2025, 11:30 AM. Apparently, there were too many different issues to cover from the various MDL cases at the marathon, 4-hour oral argument last week. ORDER: The Court shall hear further oral argument…
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Magistrate Judge Wang allows discovery related to OpenAI’s alleged use of Library Genesis, shadow library
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang allows discovery related to OpenAI’s alleged use of Library Genesis, shadow libraryThe fallout from Judge Stein’s decision to allow the Class Plaintiffs to pursue a separate copyright claim based on OpenAI’s alleged downloading of book copies from shadow libraries, such as Library Genesis, continues. Magistrate Judge Wang just allowed the Plaintiffs discovery related to OpenAI’s alleged use of Library Genesis. The Plaintiffs will milk the Shadow…