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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ella Creamer

US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions

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Centralisation will ‘allow a single judge to coordinate discovery, streamline pretrial proceedings’. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

Twelve US copyright cases against OpenAI and Microsoft have been consolidated in New York, despite most of the authors and news outlets suing the companies being opposed to centralisation.

A transfer order made by the US judicial panel on multidistrict litigation on Thursday said that centralisation will “allow a single judge to coordinate discovery, streamline pretrial proceedings, and eliminate inconsistent rulings”.

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