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The New York Times Sued OpenAI Only After ChatGPT Became Popular
by Legal PDF: Tech Court CasesMarch 6th, 2024
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OpenAI wants portions of the NYT's lawsuit against the company be dismissed, arguing the paper presented misleading evidence to the court.
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
F. The Times Files Suit
It was only after this rapid adoption, along with reports of the value unlocked by these new technologies, that the Times claimed that OpenAI had “infringed its copyright[s]” and reached out to demand “commercial terms.” Compl. ¶¶ 54, 126. After months of discussions, the Times filed suit two days after Christmas, demanding “billions of dollars.” Id. ¶ 9.
In its suit, the Times now claims ChatGPT will be the end of “independent journalism.” Id. ¶¶ 2, 47. Its chief complaint is that OpenAI “use[s]” news articles to build a service the world has never before seen that, according to the Times, might “steal [its] audiences.” Id. ¶¶ 2, 8. And its core legal theory is that copyright—a law singularly devoted to the “Progress of Science and useful Arts,” U.S. CONST. art. 1, § 8, cl. 8—should protect it from that technological innovation.
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