New York Times urges court to protect source code in copyright lawsuit with Microsoft

The New York Times and other news outlets in a consolidated lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI are asking a federal court to protect from public disclosure the source codes referenced in documents to be exchanged among litigants, in a dispute over whether the tech companies violated copyright protections in the training of the generative artificial intelligence model ChatGPT.

“A Party may designate extremely sensitive Protected Discovery Material as ‘HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – SOURCE CODE’ if the material represents confidential, proprietary, or...