Despite the dismissal of these claims, the direct copyright infringement claim was not covered by OpenAI's motion to dismiss and will therefore proceed. The authors also have the opportunity to file an amended complaint to address the dismissed claims. The case is part of a larger trend of AI copyright lawsuits filed by rightsholders against tech companies.
Key takeaways:
- Several authors have filed lawsuits against AI companies, including OpenAI, alleging copyright infringement due to the use of their works in AI training without permission or compensation.
- The lawsuits specifically mention the controversial Books3 dataset, which was created by scraping the library of a 'pirate' site, and other shadow libraries.
- California District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín dismissed the vicarious copyright infringement and DMCA violations claims, stating that not all output produced by OpenAI’s models can be seen as a derivative work and there was no evidence of intentional removal of copyright information.
- The direct copyright infringement claim was not covered by OpenAI’s motion to dismiss and will move forward, along with the claim for 'unfair practices' under the California Unfair Competition Law.