OpenAI, Microsoft counter NY Times push for documentation in landmark copyright suit

Defendants Microsoft and OpenAI are asking a federal court to impose some limits and restrictions on the documentation being sought by the New York Times in its landmark lawsuit accusing the companies of copyright violations from the training of its generative artificial intelligence models.

“As a threshold matter, Defendants have not unduly delayed negotiations over the orders at issue,” write lawyers for the defendants in a May 3 response to the U.S. district court for southern New York in...