OpenAI Asks Court to Dismiss Portions of NYT's Lawsuit Against Company

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6 Mar 2024

The New York Times Company v. OpenAI Update Court Filing, retrieved on February 26, 2024 is part of HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series. You can jump to any part in this filing here. This is the table of links with all parts.

Case Number: 1:23-cv-11195-SHS

Plaintiffs: The New York Times Company

Defendant: OpenAI Update

Filing Date: February 26, 2024

Location: United States District Court Southern District of New York

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION

II. BACKGROUND

A. OpenAI’s Pioneering Research

B. The Key to Generalist Language Models: Scale

C. Reliance on Longstanding Fair Use Principles

D. GPT-3.5 and GPT-4

E. OpenAI’s API and ChatGPT

F. The Times Files Suit

G. The Times Focuses on Two Fringe Behaviors: Regurgitation & Hallucination

III. LEGAL STANDARD

IV. ARGUMENT

A. The Times Cannot Sue for Conduct Occurring More than Three Years Ago

B. The Complaint Fails to State a Contributory Infringement Claim

C. The DMCA Claim Fails for Multiple Independent Reasons

D. The “Misappropriation” Claim Is Preempted by the Copyright Act

V. CONCLUSION


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