Last month, in the New York-based class action lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement, Judge Ona T. Wang ordered the tech company to turn over internal messages that discuss the deletion of the LibGen dataset that was used to train their LLM. Plaintiffs argue that the messages may suggest that the company engaged in willful copyright infringement. If that’s the case, class members could be entitled to damages of up to $150,000 per work–the maximum allowed by the Copyright Act. “The stakes reach beyond a hefty damages award,” Bloomberg Law reports. “If the court finds that OpenAI destroyed evidence anticipating […]
