Is the press coverage of Raw Story Media, Inc. v. OpenAI Inc. aligned with the court record?

Coverage leans toward the plaintiff. No classified ruling yet to compare against the court record.

Raw Story Media, Inc. v. OpenAI Inc.

Raw Story Media sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, alleging the AI company used its news articles without permission.

Summary generated by AI from public docket data. Verify against the original filing before relying on it.

Deep summary (AI brief of the complaint)

# Case Brief: Raw Story Media, Inc. v. OpenAI Inc. **SDNY, No. 1:24-cv-01514 | Filed 02/28/24** --- **Plaintiff:** Raw Story Media, Inc. and AlterNet Media, Inc. — independent progressive news publishers collectively owning 400,000+ copyrighted journalism works. **Defendant:** OpenAI, Inc. and six affiliated OpenAI entities responsible for the creation, training, and commercialization of ChatGPT. **Core allegation:** OpenAI stripped copyright management information (author, title, and copyright notices) from Plaintiffs' journalism works before ingesting them into ChatGPT training sets (WebText, WebText2, Common Crawl), in violation of 17 U.S.C. § 1202(b)(1). OpenAI did so with reason to know that the removal would induce, enable, facilitate, and conceal downstream copyright infringement by ChatGPT and its users. **Asserted IP:** - 400,000+ copyrighted news articles, investigative features, and opinion columns owned by Raw Story Media, Inc. - 400,000+ copyrighted works owned by AlterNet Media, Inc. (same corpus, jointly held) - Copyright management information (author, title, copyright…

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Coverage vs realityPress: plaintiff

Coverage events: 35P · 20D · 55N (214 articles)

Press coverage leans plaintiff-favorable; no court ruling has been classified yet.

Coverage breakdown — the articles behind the meter

59 plaintiff-favorable · 30 defendant-favorable · 125 neutral articles

The meter counts distinct coverage events, not articles: 35 plaintiff · 20 defendant · 55 neutral events — a burst of same-stance coverage counts once, however many outlets ran it.

Plaintiff-favorable

2nd Circ. Judge Unimpressed By OpenAI's IP Suit StanceLaw360 · 2026-03-18
2nd Circ. Judge Unimpressed By OpenAI's IP Suit StanceLaw360 · 2026-03-18
Digital news outlets urge Second Circuit to revive ChatGPT copyright claimsCourthouse News · 2026-03-18
Judges Appear Open to Undoing OpenAI Win in Copyright Suit (1)Bloomberg Law News · 2026-03-18

Defendant-favorable

The Article III Standing Problem for AI-Scraping Anti-Circumvention ClaimsManaging Intellectual Property · 2026-04-27
OpenAI fights order to turn over millions of ChatGPT conversationsReuters · 2025-11-12
Perplexity strikes multi-year licensing deal with Getty ImagesTechCrunch · 2025-10-31
OpenAI Can Erase ChatGPT Logs Again After Legal Dispute Over Copyright and PrivacyDigital Information World · 2025-10-12

Coverage sentiment vs. docket activity over time

Counsel of record

For the defendant

Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLPAndrew S. Bruns, Daniel T Nguyen, Emily Lu Wang +6 more
Morrison & Foerster LLPCaitlin Sinclaire Blythe, Drew Alan Hillier, Eric K Nikolaides +3 more
Latham & Watkins LLPAllison S Blanco, Herman Heng Yue
Morrison FoersterSara Talebian
Morrison Foerster LLPDaniel Mello
Paul Weiss (NY)Gerardo Gomez Galvis

Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Docket no.: 1:24-cv-01514
Nature of suit: Copyright
Judge: Sidney H. Stein
Filed: 2024-02-28
Last filing: 2026-09-01
Terminated: 2025-06-18

Cause

17:1201 Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Entities in this case

OpenAI31 Raw Story Media

Docket entries

2026-03-03
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2026-01-16
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2026-01-06
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2025-10-21
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2025-10-01
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2025-07-24
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2025-06-13
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2025-06-04
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2025-04-14
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2025-04-03
NOTICE OF CASE REASSIGNMENT to Judge Sidney H. Stein. Judge Colleen McMahon is no longer assigned to the case. (vba)
2025-03-31
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2024-10-25
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2024-10-24
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2024-10-21
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2024-04-23
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2024-03-22
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2024-03-19
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2024-03-13
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2024-02-29
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