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Magistrate Judge Wang denies motion to compel discovery of Bing Index for now
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang denies motion to compel discovery of Bing Index for nowThe pirated books dataset Library Genesis is turning into the mother of all disputes in the copyright litigation against AI companies. In the MDL litigation against Microsoft, Plaintiffs seek discovery of the Bing Index: “What Class Plaintiffs are challenging, however, is the transfer of a copy (or copies of portions) of the Bing Index data…
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Magistrate Judge Wang to hold confidential settlement conference with OpenAI and News plaintiffs on Oct. 31
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang to hold confidential settlement conference with OpenAI and News plaintiffs on Oct. 31On October 31, 10:30 AM, Magistrate Judge Wang will hold a confidential settlement conference with OpenAI and the News Plaintiffs. Meanwhile, Judge Wang issued an order expressing concern “that OpenAI may have disclosed protected settlement communications that took place during the August 15, 2025, confidential settlement conference.” It is a tantalizing possibility that, eventually, all…
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Book Authors spar with OpenAI, Microsoft over discovery related to books datasets, Bing Index, waiver of attorney-client privilege
Read more: Book Authors spar with OpenAI, Microsoft over discovery related to books datasets, Bing Index, waiver of attorney-client privilegeOn October 29, Magistrate Judge Ona Wang will hold a discovery conference to go over disputes between the parties. Let’s take a look at the discovery disputes between the book authors (aka “class” plaintiffs) and OpenAI and Microsoft. Issues: Positions of the parties DOWNLOAD THE CHARTS OF THE PARTIES
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OpenAI agrees to more limited preservation order to keep output logs of accounts associated with certain websites
Read more: OpenAI agrees to more limited preservation order to keep output logs of accounts associated with certain websitesOpenAI has agreed to a stipulated preservation order of output logs of users for ChatGPT associated with certain websites in Appendix A below. It looks these websites are copy-pasta news sites that are re–publishing news articles from other sources. DOWNLOAD THE ORDER
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Magistrate Judge Wang issues ominous order asking for more briefing on whether OpenAI waived attorney-client privilege re: its destruction of Books1 and Books2 datasets.
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang issues ominous order asking for more briefing on whether OpenAI waived attorney-client privilege re: its destruction of Books1 and Books2 datasets.Things may go from bad to worse from OpenAI in the MDL Litigation. Magistrate Judge Wang just ordered supplemental briefing on whether OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege related to its destructions of Books1 and Books2 datasets used to train its earlier models. The parties are directed to file supplemental briefs not to exceed 1,500 words…
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Magistrate Judge Wang decides another discovery loss for OpenAI
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang decides another discovery loss for OpenAIIn the MDL Litigation, In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, Magistrate Judge Ona Wang delivered yet another discovery loss to OpenAI and Microsoft. This time, Judge Wang rejected their motion to compel the New York Times to produce the content of all chat logs from NYT employees’ use of their internal generative AI program called…
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Court issues deposition protocol for MDL case v. OpenAI, Microsoft
Read more: Court issues deposition protocol for MDL case v. OpenAI, MicrosoftMagistrate Judge Ona Wang just issued the order for the deposition protocol. The allocation of hours of depositions in the MDL case looks like this: For defendants OpenAI and Microsoft:
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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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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.