Examples Boosted News Outlets’ OpenAI Claims, Judge Says (1)

News outlets accusing OpenAI Inc. of copyright violations provided enough examples of infringing outputs, combined with their allegations of “widely publicized” instances of copyright infringement by AI users, to advance certain claims against the company, a federal judge ruled.

The examples of users’ infringement include hundreds of pages provided by New York Times Co. and dozens of examples from Daily News LP. That was enough to justify denying OpenAI’s motion to dismiss contributory infringement claims, Judge Sidney H. Stein said in a Friday opinion in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Stein’s opinion laid out ...