Federal district court decisions
Judge Stein largely denied Microsoft and OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the New York Times’s landmark copyright suit over GPT training, allowing contributory infringement, federal trademark dilution, and certain DMCA Section 1202(b)(1) CMI-removal claims to proceed.
A Delaware federal court held that Ross Intelligence’s use of Westlaw headnotes to train its AI legal research tool was not fair use — the first major U.S. court decision to find that AI training on copyrighted material for a directly competing product is direct copyright infringement.
A California federal court allowed direct copyright claims over the dembow rhythm used in reggaeton songs by Bad Bunny, Drake, and other artists to proceed, while dismissing secondary-liability claims with leave to amend.
A Texas federal court refused to send IBM’s U.S. patent and trade-secret case against LzLabs to England, and allowed indirect and willful infringement allegations to proceed.