Federal Judge Denies OpenAI Bid to Keep Deleting Data Amid Daily News Copyright Lawsuit
- A federal judge in Manhattan last Thursday upheld a ruling requiring OpenAI to preserve logs slated for deletion amid lawsuits from news outlets over alleged unlicensed use of copyrighted content for AI training.
- A federal judge in Manhattan upheld OpenAI's data preservation order, stemming from lawsuits by news outlets alleging use of copyrighted works without consent to train ChatGPT.
- Evidence shows plaintiffs allege OpenAI used copyrighted news content without consent, and the court rejected the company's claim of no piracy evidence.
- The judge clarified private user data won’t be shared, while OpenAI vows to continue fighting the preservation order.
- At stake is OpenAI’s $300 billion valuation, making it a test case for fair use and future AI training practices and copyright boundaries.
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Federal judge denies OpenAI bid to keep deleting data amid Daily News copyright lawsuit
A federal judge has upheld a ruling directing OpenAI to preserve logs and data slated for deletion after news outlets including the New York Daily News suing the technology giant accused the company of hiding evidence of copyright infringement. The new ruling, issued Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court, denied the company’s objection to an earlier court order directing OpenAI to keep any data used to train its artificial intelligence bots — logs…
Two Judges, Same District, Opposite Conclusions: The Messy Reality Of AI Training Copyright Cases - Above the Law
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OpenAI Loses Data Hold Round In News Orgs' Copyright Fight - Data Intelligence
By Stewart Bishop ( June 26, 2025, 11:42 PM EDT) — A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday refused to overturn a ruling that directed OpenAI to preserve ChatGPT logs in ongoing copyright infringement litigation brought by news organizations against the company and Microsoft, after hearing an hourslong “tutorial” about the ins and outs of generative artifical intelligence…. Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscription puts you at the ce…
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