{"id":2275122,"date":"2026-02-10T01:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2275122"},"modified":"2026-02-10T01:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:22:09","slug":"openai-wins-key-discovery-battle-as-it-gains-ground-against-authors-in-ai-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/openai-wins-key-discovery-battle-as-it-gains-ground-against-authors-in-ai-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Wins Key Discovery Battle as It Gains Ground Against Authors in AI Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">It was a highly contentious ruling, one that could\u2019ve changed the course of not only this case but others against AI companies. The court had just ruled that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0999574\/\">OpenAI<\/a> waived attorney-client privilege by denying allegations that it knowingly infringed upon the copyrights of authors whose books it illegally downloaded. The finding opened the door to internal communications behind the company\u2019s deletion of two huge datasets of pirated books, potentially exposing it to massive damages. Its in-house legal team was set to be deposed.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI immediately appealed the ruling, bringing on Lisa Blatt, a veteran of the Supreme Court bar who counts <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0123378\/\">Google<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0038290\/\">Bank of America<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1029303\/\">Starbucks<\/a> as clients. In her brief, she delivered a dire warning: the decision, if allowed to stand, will eviscerate assertions of privilege in any copyright case involving what\u2019s known as state of mind, an analysis used to determine whether a defendant&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a highly contentious ruling, one that could\u2019ve changed the course of not only this case but others against AI companies. The court had just ruled that OpenAI waived attorney-client privilege by denying allegations that it knowingly infringed upon the copyrights of authors whose books it illegally downloaded. 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