纽约法官继续维持对 OpenAI 起诉的关键部分
来源：广东中策知识产权研究院 发布日期：2025-04-23 阅读：9次
“Judge Sidney Stein said in part that the plaintiffs’ numerous examples ‘of allegedly infringing outputs at the pleading stage…combined with their allegations of ‘widely publicized’ instances of copyright infringement by end users of defendants’ products, give rise to a plausible inference of copyright infringement by third parties.”
西德尼-斯坦（Sidney Stein）法官说：“原告在诉状阶段提供的众多涉嫌侵权输出示例——包括《纽约时报》诉状附录J中逾百页的举证，以及《每日新闻》诉状附录J中的数十个案例——结合其对被告产品终端用户存在'广泛传播'的版权侵权行为的指控，使人有理由推断第三方侵犯了版权”。
A Friday ruling from the U.S. District court for the Southern District of New York found in favor of news organizations including the New York Times Company on several points, but granted defendants OpenAI’s and Microsoft’s motions to dismiss on others, in the landmark cases about whether OpenAI’s large language models (LLMs) infringe the news organizations’ copyrights.
周五，美国纽约南区地方法院就 OpenAI 的大型语言模型（LLM）是否侵犯新闻机构版权的标志性案件作出裁决，在若干问题上支持包括纽约时报公司在内的新闻机构，但在其他问题上驳回了被告 OpenAI 和微软的动议。
The New York Times (the Times) case was brought in late December 2023 against OpenAI’s LLM, ChatGPT, as well as Microsoft’s GPT-4-powered Bing Chat, alleging that Microsoft and OpenAI reproduce Times content verbatim and also often attribute false information to it. OpenAI filed a motion to dismiss the suit, which in part alleged that The Times paid someone to target and exploit “a bug (which OpenAI has committed to addressing) by using deceptive prompts that blatantly violate OpenAI’s terms of use.” The Times responded by calling the accusation “as irrelevant as it is false,” pointing the court to its Exhibit J to the complaint, which explains that The Times elicited the infringing content from OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT, by prompting it with the first few words or sentences of Times articles.
《纽约时报》于 2023 年 12 月底起诉 OpenAI 的大型语言模型 ChatGPT 以及微软的由 GPT-4 支持的必应聊天工具，称微软和 OpenAI 逐字逐句地复制《纽约时报》的内容，还经常将虚假信息归因于《纽约时报》。OpenAI 提出了驳回诉讼的动议，其中部分指控《泰晤士报》花钱雇人针对并利用 “一个漏洞（OpenAI 已承诺解决该漏洞），使用公然违反 OpenAI 使用条款的欺骗性提示”。泰晤士报》在回应中称这一指控 “既不相关，也是错误的”，并向法庭指出了其诉状中的证据 J，该证据解释说，《泰晤士报》通过向 OpenAI 的聊天机器人 ChatGPT 提示《泰晤士报》文章的前几个单词或句子，引出了侵权内容。
In Friday’s order, the New York court denied:
(1) OpenAI’s motions to dismiss the direct infringement claims involving conduct occurring more than three years before the complaints were filed;
(2) the defendants’ motions to dismiss the contributory copyright infringement claims; and
(3) the defendants’ motions to dismiss the state and federal trademark dilution claims in the Daily News action.
在周五的命令中，纽约法院驳回了以下请求:
(1）OpenAI请求驳回涉及投诉提出前三年多行为的直接侵权索赔；
(2）被告提出的驳回共同侵权索赔的动议；以及
(3) 驳回被告在《每日新闻》案中提出的州和联邦商标淡化索赔的动议。
However, the court did grant the defendants’ motions to dismiss the common law unfair competition by misappropriation claims and OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the “abridgment” claims in the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) action against it, both with prejudice.
不过，法院还是批准了被告提出的驳回普通法中通过盗用进行不正当竞争的诉讼请求的动议，以及 OpenAI 提出的驳回 Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) 对其提起的诉讼中 “删节 ”诉讼请求的动议，但这两项动议都有损害。
Finally, the court granted Microsoft’s motions to dismiss Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims against it under 17 U.S.C. § 1202(b)(1) in all three actions, OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the 1202(b)(1) claims against it in The New York Times’ suit against it, and the defendants’ motions to dismiss the 1202(b)(3) claims against them in all three actions, and dismissed each claim without prejudice. The court denied OpenAI’s motions to dismiss the section 1202(b)(1) claims against it in the Daily News and CIR actions.
最后，法院批准了微软根据《美国法典》第17编第1202(b)(1)条提出的驳回三起诉讼中针对其提出的《数字千年版权法案》（DMCA）索赔的动议，批准了OpenAI提出的驳回《纽约时报》对其提起的诉讼中针对其提出的第1202(b)(1)条索赔的动议，批准了被告提出的驳回三起诉讼中针对其提出的第1202(b)(3)条索赔的动议，并在不影响诉讼结果的情况下驳回了每项索赔。法院驳回了 OpenAI 在《每日新闻》和 CIR 诉讼中提出的驳回针对其的第 1202(b)(1)条诉讼请求的动议。
Judge Sidney Stein said in part that the plaintiffs’ numerous examples “of allegedly infringing outputs at the pleading stage—including more than 100 pages of examples provided in Exhibit J to the Times complaint, and dozens of examples in Exhibit J to the Daily News complaint—combined with their allegations of ‘widely publicized’ instances of copyright infringement by end users of defendants’ products, give rise to a plausible inference of copyright infringement by third parties.”
Sidney Stein 法官指出，原告 “在诉状阶段提供了大量涉嫌侵权的例子--包括《泰晤士报》诉状附录 J 中提供的 100 多页的例子，以及《每日新闻》诉状附录 J 中提供的数十个例子--再加上他们对被告产品的最终用户‘广泛宣传’的版权侵权事件的指控，使人有理由推断第三方侵犯了版权”。
Furthermore, Stein rejected OpenAI’s arguments that some of the infringement claims were time barred under the statute because the alleged infringements occurred more than three years before the filing of the complaints – in December 2023 by The Times and April 2024 by the Daily News plaintiffs. He said “OpenAI has not met its burden of establishing that The Times and the Daily News plaintiffs discovered, or with due diligence should have discovered, the alleged infringement before December 27, 2020 and April 30, 2021 respectively.”
此外，斯坦恩还驳回了OpenAI的论点，即根据法律规定，部分侵权索赔已过时效，因为所指控的侵权行为发生在提起诉讼前三年多--《泰晤士报》的侵权行为发生在2023年12月，而《每日新闻》的原告侵权行为发生在2024年4月。他说："OpenAI没有完成其举证责任，即证明《泰晤士报》和《每日新闻》的原告分别在 2020 年 12 月 27 日和 2021 年 4 月 30 日之前发现或在尽职调查的情况下本应发现被指控的侵权行为。
The Times and Daily News have said in various statements to the press that the ruling does not undermine the key aspects of the lawsuits and the companies will continue to pursue all of their copyright claims against Microsoft and OpenAI.
《泰晤士报》和《每日新闻》在向媒体发表的各种声明中表示，该裁决并没有削弱诉讼的关键方面，这两家公司将继续对微软和 OpenAI 提出所有版权索赔。