OpenAI Must Face Copyright Infringement Claim From Authors, Court Rules

Author George R. R. Martin is one of the plaintiffs in the complaint.

A computer with the Open AI logo is staged on a gradient blue background with the shadow of a man in the background in Grenoble in France, on Feb. 12, 2025. Anouk Anglade/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images

OpenAI must face allegations of copyright infringement made by authors in a consolidated class action lawsuit, District Judge Sidney H. Stein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said in an Oct. 27 order.

In the June 13 consolidated complaint, the plaintiffs—writers who own copyrights for various books—accused OpenAI and Microsoft, which funds OpenAI, of having engaged in “flagrant and harmful infringements of their copyrights.”