OpenAI Bid to Centralize IP Suits Follows Discovery Setbacks

OpenAI Inc.'s effort to centralize eight copyright suits into multidistrict litigation could be a tactic to mitigate a recent ruling that it must face a key claim brought by Intercept Media Inc. and slow down some of the more advanced proceedings, attorneys say.

Judge Jed S. Rakoff on Nov. 21 refused to dismiss Intercept Media’s claim that OpenAI intentionally removed copyright management information from the news outlet’s work in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to use it to train ChatGPT. His order in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York diverges from other decisions ...