OpenAI, Microsoft Urge Judge to Toss The Intercept’s DMCA Suit

A Manhattan federal judge pushed back on OpenAI Inc.‘s and Microsoft Corp.‘s arguments that he should dismiss Intercept Media Inc.'s digital copyright suit at a hearing Friday.

Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York appeared to struggle with Microsoft’s argument that The Intercept’s claims under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act should be dismissed because the publication failed to allege a proper claim and didn’t show an actual or threatened injury.

The Intercept alleged that OpenAI and Microsoft stripped copyright management information—such as authors’ names and story titles—from articles ...