A New York federal judge dismissed a copyright claim by news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet against OpenAI for unlawfully removing copyright management information from articles used in training. The court found the outlets failed to demonstrate sufficient harm to support the claim. Although the judge permitted them to file a new complaint, she stated skepticism about their ability to allege a cognizable injury, effectively narrowing the legal pathway for content owners suing on grounds of training-data misuse without direct copyright infringement allegations. This outcome reduces near-term litigation risk for AI vendors on training-data provenance and clarifies that CMI removal alone may not constitute actionable harm under current doctrine.
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