Consolidated proceeding
In re OpenAI Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (MDL 3143)
- Court
- S.D.N.Y.
- Master docket
- 1:25-md-03143
- Constituent case records
- 18
- Status
- Active
Proceeding overview
Consolidated by the court
MDL 3143 consolidates multiple copyright infringement actions against OpenAI and Microsoft before Judge Sidney Stein in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The coordinated proceedings bring together a broad coalition of authors, news organisations, and digital content creators who allege that OpenAI's large language models, including ChatGPT, were trained on copyrighted text and audiovisual material without consent or compensation.
Centralisation ordered 3 Apr 2025. Read the transfer order ↗
Source document
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Master docket
Recent docket entries
In Re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation
S.D.N.Y. · 1:25-md-03143
Entries held in Deep Lex from the past three months. For the full history and latest filings, open the master docket.
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Constituent actions
18 linked case records · A–Z
- Alter v. OpenAI Inc.
S.D.N.Y. · 1:23-cv-10211
- Authors Guild v. OpenAI Inc.
S.D.N.Y. · 1:23-cv-08292
- Basbanes v. Microsoft Corporation
S.D.N.Y. · 1:24-cv-00084
- Chabon v. OpenAI, Inc.
N.D. Cal. · 3:23-cv-04625
- Daily News LP v. Microsoft Corporation
S.D.N.Y. · 1:24-cv-03285
- DENIAL v. OpenAI, Inc.
S.D.N.Y. · 1:25-cv-06286
- Millette v. OpenAI, Inc.
N.D. Cal. · 5:24-cv-04710
- Millette v. OpenAI, Inc.
S.D.N.Y. · 1:25-cv-03297
- Raw Story Media, Inc. v. OpenAI Inc.
S.D.N.Y. · 1:24-cv-01514
- Silverman v. OpenAI, Inc.
N.D. Cal. · 3:23-cv-03416
- Silverman v. OpenAI, Inc.
J.P.M.L. · 3:23-cv-03416
- Sullivan v. OpenAI Foundation
S.D.N.Y. · 1:26-cv-06966
- The Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc. v. OpenAI, Inc.
J.P.M.L. · 1:24-cv-04872
- The Intercept Media, Inc. v. OpenAI, Inc.
S.D.N.Y. · 1:24-cv-01515
- The New York Times Company v. Microsoft Corporation
S.D.N.Y. · 1:23-cv-11195
- Tremblay v. OpenAI, Inc.
S.D.N.Y. · 1:25-cv-03482
- U.S. News & World Report, L.P. v. OpenAI, Inc.
S.D.N.Y. · 1:25-cv-09912
- wikiHow, Inc. v. OpenAI, Inc.
S.D.N.Y. · 1:26-cv-07171