Federal Judge Grants OpenAI’s Request for Dismissal in Copyright Infringment Case

A federal judge ruled on Nov. 7 that two independent news sites have failed to prove that there is “substantial risk” and injury from OpenAI using content to train ChatGPT writing software.
New York District Judge Colleen McMahon granted OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the complaint brought in February by plaintiffs Raw Story and AlterNet, the two online news platforms sued for copyright infringement.
The plaintiffs alleged that they are entitled to statutory damages for the “thousands” of copyrighted works that were used in OpenAI’s training sets, some of which included ChatGPT. They allege that the defendant removed the copyrighted management information (CMI)….