The New York Times Co. v. Microsoft Corp. & OpenAI — ChatGPT Logs Ordered Produced
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
In the highest-profile AI copyright case, Judge Sidney Stein affirmed a magistrate judge's order compelling OpenAI to produce a full 20-million-record sample of ChatGPT conversation logs to plaintiffs, rejecting OpenAI's attempt to limit production to only conversations implicating specific copyrighted works. This ruling follows the court's earlier March 2025 decision allowing the Times' core copyright infringement claims to proceed to trial. The discovery order has major implications for AI companies' data retention and litigation exposure, as it establishes that courts may require broad production of user interaction data in copyright disputes.
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