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OpenAI loses bid to undo order to preserve all user ChatGPT logs, adding to its recent discovery losses.
Read more: OpenAI loses bid to undo order to preserve all user ChatGPT logs, adding to its recent discovery losses.At a hearing yesterday, Judge Sidney Stein ruled against OpenAI in its attempt to overturn Magistrate Judge Ona Wang’s order that OpenAI preserve all ChatGPT user logs due to the New York Times’ motion that suggested some users might be engaging and concealing copyright infringement and generating infringing news articles with ChatGPT. (Maybe this is…
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Judge Stein grants oral argument for OpenAI’s objection to order to store user chat logs. Hearing on June 26.
Read more: Judge Stein grants oral argument for OpenAI’s objection to order to store user chat logs. Hearing on June 26.Judge Stein granted the request of OpenAI to hold an oral argument on its motion to overrule the order of Magistrate Judge Wang to preserve all user chat logs, at least for the time being as she considered the New York Times’ argument that some relevant discovery may have been destroyed. The oral argument will…
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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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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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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…
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Unpacking the MDL cases v. OpenAI, Microsoft
Read more: Unpacking the MDL cases v. OpenAI, MicrosoftHere are the Exhibits to the filing for the OpenAI MDL Litigation. They provide helpful charts summarizing the parties involved. Today, Judge Sidney Stein holds the Initial Case Management conference. How many lawyers do you think they can fit into the courtroom? We shall see. I’m pretty certain a human created these informative charts, not…
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MDL case: OpenAI wants Plaintiffs to pick a lead attorney. Plaintiffs want leadership by committee of lawyers from each case.
Read more: MDL case: OpenAI wants Plaintiffs to pick a lead attorney. Plaintiffs want leadership by committee of lawyers from each case.In a 78 page document, the parties in the In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, a collection of 13 lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement (2 of which are stayed, Basbanes and Millette). Probably the biggest dispute is over the appointment of the the plaintiffs’ Leadership Counsel, the first question in Judge Stein’s…
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Latest map of all 41 lawsuits v. AI companies (May 17, 2025)
Read more: Latest map of all 41 lawsuits v. AI companies (May 17, 2025)Here’s the latest map of all 41 copyright lawsuits against AI companies in the United States. Since our last map on April 28, here are the changes: