Court denies dismissal of copyright claims against OpenAI in landmark New York Times suit

A federal district court has rejected a dismissal request from OpenAI and Microsoft about alleged copyright infringements from the training of generative artificial intelligence, in an opinion that articulates a legal justification on how federal copyright law applies to AI in a landmark consolidated lawsuit initiated by the New York Times.

“For the reasons that follow, the Court denies (1) OpenAI’s motions to dismiss the direct infringement claims involving conduct occurring more than three years before the complaints were filed;...