Authors Guild v. OpenAI

Where it stands

Consolidated with the Alter and Basbanes author actions before Judge Stein and folded into MDL 3143 in April 2025; the case remains in contested discovery as of mid-2026.

The record

Court

S.D.N.Y.

Case number

1:23-cv-08292

Filed

2023-09-19

Defendants

OpenAI, Inc. · OpenAI entities · Microsoft Corporation

Plaintiffs

The Authors Guild and a putative class of fiction and nonfiction book authors whose registered works were allegedly used to train GPT models

Technology at issue

ChatGPT / GPT-series models

Relief sought

Statutory damages for willful infringement and a permanent injunction against further unlicensed training

Claims pleaded

• Direct Copyright Infringement
• Contributory Copyright Infringement
• Vicarious Copyright Infringement