Judge Rejects NYT Bid to Block Deposition of Expert in AI Case

A federal judge shot down the New York Times Co.'s request to block a deposition of a consultant who worked on a key piece of evidence included in the newspaper’s copyright lawsuit against OpenAI Inc., while leaving it open whether he might be interviewed by lawyers for OpenAI later on in the litigation.

The Times’ bid for a protective order to prevent the deposition of University of Maryland professor Tom Goldstein was filed “prematurely,” according to Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang’s order issued March 11 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. She denied the ...