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U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein of New York on Wednesday
dismissed some of the claims made by media organizations but
allowed the bulk of the case to continue, possibly to a jury
trial.
“We appreciate Judge Stein’s careful consideration of these
issues," New York Times attorney Ian Crosby said in a statement.
“As the order indicates, all of our copyright claims will
continue against Microsoft and Open AI for their widespread
theft of millions of The Times’s works, and we look forward to
continuing to pursue them.”
The judge's ruling also pleased Frank Pine, executive editor of
MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing, owners of some of the
newspapers that are part of a consolidated lawsuit in a
Manhattan court.
“The claims the court has dismissed do not undermine the main
thrust of our case, which is that these companies have stolen
our work and violated our copyright in a way that fundamentally
damages our business,” Pine said a statement.
Stein didn't explain the reasons for his ruling, saying that
would come “expeditiously.”
OpenAI said in a statement it welcomed “the court’s dismissal of
many of these claims and look forward to making it clear that we
build our AI models using publicly available data, in a manner
grounded in fair use, and supportive of innovation.”
Microsoft declined to comment.
The Times has said OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft
have threatened its livelihood by effectively stealing billions
of dollars worth of work by its journalists, in some cases
spitting out Times’ material verbatim to people who seek answers
from generative artificial intelligence like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
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