New York OpenAI Lawsuits Go Ahead Over Authors’ Bid to Pause

Authors suing OpenAI Inc. for copyright infringement in San Francisco federal court can’t intervene and pause nearly identical litigation in Manhattan, a New York federal judge ruled.

The Monday ruling is the latest to thwart efforts by the California plaintiffs, including comedian Sarah Silverman and Pulitzer-winning novelist Michael Chabon, to assert priority in the competition between cross-country copyright cases against the AI firm.

Judge Sidney Stein of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York found the California plaintiffs didn’t have a cognizable or hypothetical interest in intervening in a group of New York copyright cases against ...