The ruling allows the plaintiffs to refile the lawsuit under certain conditions, including providing an explanation of why the proposed amendment would not be futile. OpenAI, which is facing copyright lawsuits from more than half a dozen other publications, maintains that it builds its AI models using publicly available data, in a manner protected by fair use and related principles.
Key takeaways:
- A federal court has dismissed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI brought by Raw Story Media Inc. and AlterNet Media Inc.
- The news outlets accused OpenAI of incorporating thousands of their articles into AI datasets without including copyright management information (CMI), such as the article's author and title.
- The court sided with OpenAI, stating that the real issue at stake was OpenAI's use of the plaintiffs' articles to develop ChatGPT without compensation.
- Despite this ruling, OpenAI is still facing copyright lawsuits from more than a half dozen other publications, including The New York Times and a group of eight news outlets.