Extract from Avalon Zoppo’s article “OpenAI Goes Before Another Appeals Court to Fight Copyright Info Removal Allegations”
OpenAI urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday to uphold the dismissal of copyright infringement claims two media outlets brought alleging the tech company unlawfully lifted information from their news articles in training its artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.
A three-judge panel drilled down on whether Raw Story Media and AlterNet Media had standing to bring claims under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which prohibits distributing works from which copyrighted information “has been removed or altered.”
The news websites contend OpenAI used “text extractor” algorithms to strip the copyright management information, or CMI, from their articles and make new copies. In creating those copies without the headline or author’s name, OpenAI caused the outlets a concrete copyright infringement injury.
