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Judge rejects most ChatGPT copyright claims from book authors


OpenAI plans to defeat authors' remaining claim at a "later stage" of the case.

According to judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, authors behind three separate lawsuits—including Sarah Silverman, Michael Chabon, and Paul Tremblay—have failed to provide evidence supporting any of their claims except for direct copyright infringement. Similarly, allegations of "fraudulent" unfair conduct—accusing OpenAI of "deceptively" designing ChatGPT to produce outputs that omit CMI—"rest on a violation of the DMCA," Martínez-Olguín wrote. To shore up the tossed copyright claims, authors would likely need to provide examples of ChatGPT outputs that are similar to their works, as well as evidence of OpenAI intentionally removing CMI to "induce, enable, facilitate, or conceal infringement," Martínez-Olguín wrote.

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