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In a class action case filed by the Authors Guild and its co-plaintiff authors against OpenAI and Microsoft, all parties have filed motions for summary judgment. In a summary judgment, a judge may weigh undisputed evidence and render a decision without a full trial being necessary. In September 2023, the Authors Guild and 17 co-plaintiffs first filed a class action suit against OpenAI and Microsoft. As of October 2025, this case was consolidated with other class action cases, and the book-related components now are being considered alongside a similar case from news organizations, led by the New York Times . The entire docket, now known as In Re: Open AI Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (1:25-md-03143), is being heard in the Southern District of New York by U.S. District Court Judge Sidney Stein. In addition to the Authors Guild, the class action's lead co-plaintiffs presently include authors David Baldacci, Taylor Branch, Michael Connelly, Sylvia Day, Jonathan Franzen, Christopher Golden, Andrew Sean Greer, John Grisham, David Henry Hwang, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, Stacy Schiff, and James Shapiro. Of these 13 authors, Baldacci, Connelly, Day, Franzen, Grisham, Martin, and Picoult have been parties to the case from the start. ‘Mass piracy’ According to the Authors Guild and co-plaintiffs, OpenAI and its primary shareholder, Microsoft, committed copyright infringement by using fiction writers’ work to train its generative pre-trained transformer, or GPT.

Citing copyright law and fair use doctrine, the September 5 request opens with the assertions that “OpenAI’s GPT models pose an existential threat to those who write and publish books” and that this “threatens the incentives to create, the livelihoods of authors, and the future of book publishing.” The discovery process has high stakes for all parties and has been widely publicized, leading the court to seal many letters and exhibits from public view. The Authors Guild’s filing is heavily redacted, blacking out proprietary information about the number of books affected and the methods by which the class plaintiffs say OpenAI and Microsoft “worked together” to duplicate copyrighted material and assemble training datasets based on authors’ work.