Tremblay v. OpenAI, Inc.
Summary
Major authors and news organizations sue OpenAI for copyright infringement over training ChatGPT on their published works without permission.
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Counsel of record
- Saveri Law Firm, LLPAlexander Zeng
- Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLPEdward Andrew Bayley, Reid Patrick Mullen, Ryan K.M. Wong
- Keker, Van Nest, Peters LLPMaile Nell Yeats-Rowe
- Kwun Bhansali Lazarus LLPMichael S Kwun
- Latham Watkins LLPAllison Schall Blanco
- Morrison & Foerster LLPBrian M Kramer
- Morrison and Foerster LLPCaitlin Sinclaire Blythe
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & RosatiEric K Nikolaides
- Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPAssad Hussain Rajani, Douglas Andrew Winthrop, Joseph Richard Farris +2 more
- Cooley LLPJeffrey Gutkin, Shannon Eagan
- San Francisco City Attorney's OfficeReilly Todd Stoler
- Sheppard Mullin Richter & HamptonKhirin Attila Bunker
- Susman Godfrey L.L.P.Rohit Dwarka Nath
- Court
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- Docket no.
- 3:23-cv-03223
- Nature of suit
- Copyright
- Judge
- Araceli Martinez-Olguin
- Disposition
- settled / voluntarily dismissed
- Filed
- 2023-06-28
- Last filing
- 2025-08-08
- Terminated
- 2025-04-21
Cause
17:504 Copyright Infringement
Entities in this case
Parties
Richard Kadrey (plaintiff) Christopher Golden (plaintiff) Sarah Silverman (plaintiff) Junot Diaz (plaintiff) Ta-Nehisi Coates (plaintiff) Andrew Sean Greer (plaintiff) Jacqueline Woodson (plaintiff) Laura Lippman (plaintiff) Ayelet Waldman (plaintiff) Rachel Louise Snyder (plaintiff) Matthew Klam (plaintiff) David Henry Hwang (plaintiff) Michael Chabon (plaintiff) OpenAI Startup Fund Management, LLC (defendant) Reuters News & Media Inc. (respondent) Jonathan Alter (third party plaintiff) Authors Guild (third party plaintiff) Dario Amodei (witness) Microsoft Corporation (miscellaneous) Benjamin J. Mann (witness)
Docket entries
- 2025-08-08
Notice of Appearance/Substitution/Change/Withdrawal of Attorney
- 2025-03-18
Notice of Appearance/Substitution/Change/Withdrawal of Attorney
- 2025-02-04
Clerk's Notice AND ~Util - Teleconference Zoom
- 2025-02-04
Electronic Filing Error
- 2025-02-03
Notice of Appearance/Substitution/Change/Withdrawal of Attorney
- 2025-02-03
Set/Reset Hearings
- 2025-01-31
Notice of Appearance/Substitution/Change/Withdrawal of Attorney
- 2025-01-30
Notice of Appearance/Substitution/Change/Withdrawal of Attorney
- 2025-01-29
Clerk's Notice AND ~Util - Teleconference Zoom
- 2025-01-29
Electronic Filing Error
- 2025-01-28
Discovery Hearing
- 2025-01-23
Notice of Appearance/Substitution/Change/Withdrawal of Attorney
- 2025-01-15
Order on Discovery Letter Brief
- 2025-01-15
Order
- 2024-10-17
Notice of Appearance/Substitution/Change/Withdrawal of Attorney
- 2024-08-15
*** POSTED IN ERROR. PLEASE DISREGARD *** Electronic filing error. No PDF attached. [err201] Please re-file in its entirety. Re:170 Notice of Appearance/Substitution/Withdrawal of Attorney, filed by OpenAI GP, L.L.C., OpenAI, Inc., OpenAI Startup Fund I, L.P., OpenAI OpCo, L.L.C., OpenAI Startup Fund GP I, L.L.C., OpenAI, L.P., OpenAI Startup Fund Management, LLC (dhm, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 8/15/2024) Modified on 8/15/2024 (dhm, COURT STAFF).
- 2024-05-31
Order on Discovery Letter Brief
- 2023-10-06
Case Management Conference - Initial AND ~Util - Case Referred to Magistrate-Judge for Settlement Conference AND ~Util - Set Deadlines/Hearings
- 2023-06-29
~Util - Case Assigned by Intake
- 2023-06-29
Clerk's Notice of Impending Reassignment - Text Only
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