A US judge has thrown out a case against ChatGPT developer OpenAI which alleged it unlawfully removed copyright management information (CMI) when buil

Judge tosses publishers' copyright suit against OpenAI

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2024-11-10 08:00:06

A US judge has thrown out a case against ChatGPT developer OpenAI which alleged it unlawfully removed copyright management information (CMI) when building training sets for its chatbots.

Publishers Raw Story and AltNet allege that when OpenAI removed the description of the copyright status, it resulted in a "concrete injury." The plaintiffs also argued there was a substantial risk that OpenAI's systems could "provide responses to users that incorporate … material from Plaintiffs' copyright-protected work or regurgitate copyright-protected works verbatim or nearly verbatim."

In a statement to Reuters, an OpenAI spokesperson said: "We build our AI models using publicly available data, in a manner protected by fair use and related principles, and supported by longstanding and widely accepted legal precedents."

In February, Raw Story and AltNet alleged OpenAI populated their training sets with works of journalism, choosing to strip away CMI protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.