OpenAI, Microsoft Oppose Pausing New York Copyright Lawsuits

OpenAI Inc. and partner Microsoft Corp. are pushing back on a motion to stall a copyright infringement suit against them, after intervenors from California last week asked a New York federal judge to pause progress on the case in favor of a similar dispute in a San Francisco federal court.

Attorneys representing Sarah Silverman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and other authors in the US District Court for the Northern District of California filed a motion to intervene in the New York copyright cases on Feb. 23, arguing that OpenAI is engaging in “procedural gamesmanship” by reneging on its plans to prioritize the ...