OpenAI Beats Raw Story Copyright, Training Lawsuit, for Now (1)

A New York federal judge dismissed a copyright lawsuit brought by Raw Story Media Inc. and Alternet Media Inc. over training data for OpenAI Inc.‘s chatbot on Thursday because they lacked concrete injury to bring the suit.

Removing copyright management information like author names from the outlets’ articles to train generative artificial intelligence tools—absent dissemination of those works—doesn’t qualify as an adverse effect needed to establish standing, Judge Colleen McMahon wrote in a decision issued in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

McMahon denied the outlets’ motion for leave to replead ...