OpenAI Fails to Shake Download Claims in Authors’ Copyright Suit

A New York federal judge rejected OpenAI Inc.'s motion to strike copyright infringement claims stemming from the company’s downloading of pirate libraries in a consolidated class action brought by authors.

The download allegations don’t violate a May order barring new claims because, although the authors’ theory of liability changed, the underlying infringement claims and facts were already present in earlier pleadings, Judge Sidney H. Stein said in an opinion docketed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Anthropic PBC’s recent $1.5 billion settlement of a class action brought by authors stemmed from similar claims ...