Southern District of New York Judge Sidney Stein’s docket is bursting with dozens of amicus briefs in the copyright infringement lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft that are now fully briefed for a ruling on summary judgment. Most of them are position papers of one kind or another but two stood out to as worth noting for the record. One, from Congressmen Jamie Raskin, Jerrold Nadler and Hank Johnson, who serve on the House subcommittee with jurisdiction over copyright policy, pushes back on the Trump Department of Justice’s bizarre and non-legal “statement of interest” filed in September asking the court to […]
