MDL
CIR v. OpenAI
MDL ConsolidatedNot a class action
The Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc. v. OpenAI, Inc., et al.
Where it stands
Consolidated with the NYT and Daily News actions before Judge Stein on April 3, 2025 and absorbed into MDL 3143; OpenAI filed an amended answer on May 20, 2025.
Key ruling
April 4, 2025 — covered by Judge Stein's consolidated ruling denying most of the motions to dismiss in the news-publisher cases.
The record
- Court
- S.D.N.Y.
- Case number
- 1:24-cv-04872
- Filed
- 2024-06-27
- Defendants
- OpenAI, Inc. · OpenAI affiliated entities · Microsoft Corporation
- Plaintiffs
- The Center for Investigative Reporting (publisher of Mother Jones and Reveal) — a single nonprofit newsroom, not a class
- Technology at issue
- ChatGPT / GPT-series models
- Relief sought
- Damages and injunctive relief for unlicensed copying of CIR journalism into training data and outputs
- Counsel of record
- Loevy + Loevy
Claims pleaded
Sources (3)
- OpenAI, Microsoft sued by Center for Investigative Reporting as news industry bolsters attack on AICNBC · 2024-06-27
- Center for Investigative Reporting, publisher of Mother Jones and Reveal, sues OpenAI, MicrosoftLoevy + Loevy · 2024-06-27
- In re: OpenAI, Inc., Copyright Infringement Litigation — litigation trackerMesh IP Law · 2025-10-30
This page describes a publicly filed case. This site is not counsel on this matter, nothing here is legal advice, and the allegations described are allegations unless a court has said otherwise.