OpenAI lawsuit

Extracted Attributes

• Key Defendants

  OpenAI, Microsoft (in some cases), Sam Altman, Greg Brockman

• Key Plaintiffs (Authors)

  George R.R. Martin, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jia Tolentino, Sarah Silverman

• Court Location (US Cases)

  Southern District of New York, USA

• Primary Allegation (Musk)

  Abandoning non-profit mission for a closed-source, for-profit model

• Primary Claim Type (Musk)

  Breach of Contract, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Unfair Competition

• Key Plaintiff (Individual)

  Elon Musk

• Legal Basis (Musk's Lawsuit)

  California Business and Professions Code

• Primary Allegation (ANI Media)

  ChatGPT falsely attributed fabricated news, Unfair Competition

• Primary Allegation (Copyright)

  Training AI models on copyrighted material without permission

• Primary Claim Type (Copyright)

  Copyright Infringement

• Court Location (ANI Media Case)

  High Court of Delhi, India

• Key Plaintiffs (Media Companies)

  The New York Times, ANI Media Pvt Ltd, Raw Story Media, Toronto Star, CBC/Radio-Canada, The Globe and Mail, Postmedia, Metroland, The Canadian Press

• Primary Allegation (Raw Story Media)

  Violation of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by removing Copyright Management Information (CMI)

Timeline

• OpenAI began facing multiple lawsuits for alleged copyright infringement from authors and media companies. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2023-01-01

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was briefly ousted from his position and then reinstated five days later. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2023-11-01

• The New York Times filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York. (Source: Web Search)

  2023-12-01

• A substantial portion of OpenAI's AI safety researchers departed the company. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2024-01-01

• ANI Media Pvt Ltd filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the High Court of Delhi, India, for alleged copyright violations and false attribution. (Source: Web Search)

  2024-11-19

• US Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang issued an order in The New York Times v OpenAI, compelling OpenAI to preserve output log data. (Source: Web Search)

  2025-05-13

• OpenAI converted its main business into a for-profit entity, marking a significant corporate restructuring. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2025-10-01

• Microsoft acquired a 27% stake in OpenAI as part of the corporate restructuring. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2025-10-28

OpenAI

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". As a leading organization in the ongoing AI boom, OpenAI is known for the GPT family of large language models, the DALL-E series of text-to-image models, and a text-to-video model named Sora. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing widespread interest in generative AI. The organization has a complex corporate structure. As of October 2025, it is led by the non-profit OpenAI Foundation, founded in 2015 and registered in Delaware, which holds a 26% equity stake in OpenAI Group PBC, a for-profit public benefit corporation which commercializes its products. Microsoft invested over $13 billion into OpenAI, and provides Azure cloud computing resources. In October 2025, OpenAI conducted a $6.6 billion share sale that valued the company at $500 billion. On 28 October 2025, OpenAI said it had converted its main business into a for-profit corporation, with Microsoft acquiring a 27% stake in the company and the remaining non-profit company (now known as the OpenAI Foundation) owning a 26% stake. In 2023 and 2024, OpenAI faced multiple lawsuits for alleged copyright infringement against authors and media companies whose work was used to train some of OpenAI's products. In November 2023, OpenAI's board removed Sam Altman as CEO, citing a lack of confidence in him, but reinstated him five days later following a reconstruction of the board. Throughout 2024, roughly half of then-employed AI safety researchers left OpenAI, citing the company's prominent role in an industry-wide problem.

Web Search Results

• Generative AI and Copyright Issues Globally: ANI Media v OpenAI

  Recently, in a first in India, the news agency ANI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for alleged copyright violations. ANI says OpenAI used its news content to train ChatGPT without permission. ANI claims that ChatGPT falsely attributed fabricated news stories to the agency, damaging its reputation and potentially spreading misinformation. ANI seeks damages and a permanent injunction against OpenAI for using the agency’s content. ANI states that it is not just a copyright infringement but also the [...] In the US, multiple cases are underway on the same issue. The first to be highlighted is The New York Times v OpenAI. Filed in 2023 in the Southern District of New York,the news company filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for using its articles unlawfully to train AI models. It contends that this use violates its copyright and undermines its business model by allowing bypass of paywall. According to the lawsuit, the Times’ earnings and journalistic integrity are seriously threatened by [...] Another case is Raw Story Media v. OpenAI. The case is before the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by removing CMI from their articles before using them to train ChatGPT. The court dismissed the lawsuit filed by Raw Story Media against OpenAI, ruling that the plaintiffs lacked standing as they did not demonstrate tangible injury from the alleged misuse of their copyrighted content in training ChatGPT. Judge

• OpenAI and ChatGPT Lawsuit List - Originality.AI

  Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman, and President Greg Brockman for breaching their Founding Agreement to develop AI technology for the public good and not private interests. The lawsuit alleges that by shifting from a nonprofit to a for-profit model, OpenAI is guilty of breach of contract, fiduciary duty, and unfair competition under the California Business and Professions Code. ### Claims: Musk’s lawsuit outlines the following claims against OpenAI: [...] Statement of Claim. Access through: ### Nature of the Action: This lawsuit alleges copyright infringement against OpenAI by several leading Canadian news outlets, including the Toronto Star, CBC/Radio-Canada, the Globe and Mail, Postmedia, Metroland, and the Canadian Press. As with similar cases against OpenAI in the United States, the plaintiffs claim that OpenAI is committing copyright infringement by using content from the Canadian media to train its products like ChatGPT. ### Claims: [...] ## Case 18: ANI v. OpenAI #### Case Details Court: High Court of Delhi, India Case No.: CS(COMM) 1028/2024 Complaint Filed: November 19, 2024 (official lawsuit is unavailable online; see court order and Reuters reporting on the case below) Nature of Action: Copyright Infringement, False Attribution, Unfair Competition #### Parties: Plaintiff: ANI Media Pvt Ltd (Asian News International) Defendant: OpenAI Inc. and ANR (and others) #### Reference: Court Order. Access through:

• Judge Cites ChatGPT 'Game of Thrones' Sequel Idea in AI Copyright ...

  The decision was made in a case that consolidated several class-action lawsuits from authors — including Martin, Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jia Tolentino, and Sarah Silverman, among others — against OpenAI and Microsoft. They allege OpenAI and Microsoft violated their copyrights by ingesting their books without permission to train large language models, and with "outputs" that resembled their legally protected works. [...] A judge allowed a class-action lawsuit from authors to move forward against OpenAI and Microsoft. He pointed to a ChatGPT-generated book idea for George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. The judge hasn't decided whether OpenAI is protected by "fair use," which set back a similar case. When a federal judge decided to allow a sprawling class-action lawsuit against OpenAI to move forward, he read some "Game of Thrones" fan fiction.

• What the OpenAI Court Order Means for Cybersecurity and Privacy

  #### Finding the balance between AI innovation and privacy laws The OpenAI lawsuit brings into sharp focus the challenges of navigating privacy regulations like those in the US and Europe/UK while pushing forward with AI innovation. For example, privacy laws in the US cover consumer rights such as data access, deletion, and transparency. But these principles are often at odds with the expansive data needs of generative AI. [...] The NYT v. OpenAI lawsuit has drawn serious attention, with a recent court order shaking the tech world. On May 13, 2025, US Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang of the Southern District of New York issued an order compelling OpenAI to "preserve and segregate all output log data that would otherwise be deleted on a going forward basis until further order of the Court." This verdict has raised questions not only about data privacy but also about the future of cybersecurity in the age of AI. [...] The court order has kicked off global discussions, especially since it came from a legal battle that started with The New York Times' copyright lawsuit filed in December 2023. Developers at OpenAI used millions of sources from all over the internet to train their large language model. The NYT claimed that OpenAI leaned heavily on their content—news articles, editorials, and opinion pieces—a staggering 66 million pieces of content used without permission.

• How we're responding to The New York Times' data ... - OpenAI

  The New York Times is suing OpenAI. As part of their baseless lawsuit, they’ve recently asked the court to force us to retain all user content indefinitely going forward, based on speculation that they might find something that supports their case. We strongly believe this is an overreach. It risks your privacy without actually helping resolve the lawsuit. That’s why we’re fighting it. Is my data impacted?