Intercept’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Progresses

in one order A federal court on Friday rejected OpenAI’s effort to throw out a lawsuit filed by The Intercept for using the work of its journalists to train ChatGPT without permission or credit.

One of Intercept’s claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act will advance against OpenAI, but another claim was dismissed along with all claims against Microsoft.

“This decision demonstrates that the DMCA provides critical protections for news organizations against encroachment by AI companies and offers a workable approach to combating unauthorized use of digital news content for AI education, regardless of whether the content is registered with the Copyright Office.” Matt Topic, The Intercept’s attorney in the case and partner at law firm Loevy + Loevy, said in a statement following the order. , This prohibits distribution of content knowing that this copyright management information has been removed. It also dismissed The Intercept’s claims against Microsoft under both DMCA provisions.