Those paying close attention might recall that the Authors Guild lawsuit against OpenAI focused strictly on fiction. Now a new lawsuit has been filed by nonfiction author Julian Sancton against OpenAI and Microsoft on behalf of other nonfiction authors. (This is also the first suit to name Microsoft as a defendant.) Like the Authors Guild suit, it has been filed in the Southern District of New York.
Read our September summary of the ongoing lawsuits by authors.
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