OpenAI Must Produce Profit Projections in AI Copyright Suit (1)

A federal magistrate judge ordered OpenAI Inc. to produce documents on its financial projections shared with investors including Microsoft Corp. and Softbank Group Corp. at a hearing Wednesday as part of discovery for news organizations’ copyright infringement suit against the AI company.

Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang wasn’t sympathetic to OpenAI’s argument the news outlets already have the financial documents they need to conduct their analysis on OpenAI’s defense that training its AI model on protected works was fair use under copyright law. The requested documents are central to the first factor of the fair use doctrine, which is whether ...