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Intellectual Property

Jan. 16, 2025

Lawyers oppose Anthropic leader's subpoena in OPENAI case

An Anthropic co-founder seeks to quash a subpoena in a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming no unique knowledge about the company's practices, though he worked there for 18 months. Writers claim copyright infringement by ChatGPT.

A co-founder of Anthropic PBC, the company behind the AI powered personal assistant "Claude," asked a San Francisco federal judge to quash a subpoena from writers suing OpenAI Inc. over claims that the company's large language model powering ChatGPT violated the copyrights on their literary works.

Attorneys from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP argued in their motion Tuesday that the plaintiffs' subpoena is "unduly burdensome" because co-founder ...

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