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Free Law Project's archive of US federal court dockets and filings, mirrored from PACER through RECAP. Primary for what a court actually ordered, because it serves the signed document rather than a report of it. Cite the docket entry number: a case has several orders on one day, and press coverage tends to merge them.

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The Seattle Times and Newsday ask a court to destroy the models trained on their journalism

Two American newspapers filed a copyright complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft in Manhattan federal court on September 4, 2026. The filing runs to 38 pages and seven counts. Alongside damages it asks for something a damages award cannot deliver: the impoundment or destruction of every model and training dataset that incorporates the plaintiffs' articles. Nothing has been decided, so every number in the document is one side's allegation. What makes it worth reading is the evidence the two papers say they already hold.

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Microsoft's summary judgment brief puts numbers on how rarely Copilot repeats news text

Microsoft moved for summary judgment on September 4, 2026 in the consolidated copyright case brought by The New York Times, the Daily News and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Part of its fair use argument rests on 8.2 million Copilot chat logs handed over in discovery. The plaintiffs' own expert found a 16-word match in 59,545 of those conversations, which Microsoft's expert reports as 0.73% of the sample. The brief also restates something a site owner can act on today: two meta tags that keep a page out of Copilot's web grounding.

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IN RE OPENAI20 pagesthe United States argues that training is fair
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The United States told a federal court that training a language model on copyrighted text is fair use

The Department of Justice filed a 20-page Statement of Interest on September 1, 2026 in the consolidated OpenAI copyright litigation in the Southern District of New York. It asks the court to reject the argument that training large language models on copyrighted texts infringes copyright, and says the fourth fair-use factor, the effect on the market, heavily favors fair use. Its most concrete argument is economic: a licensing requirement would leave only the largest technology companies able to pay. A footnote then states that the government takes no position on whether such a licensing regime would be workable at all.

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Music publishers ask a court to order an accounting of Anthropic training data

Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and affiliated publishing companies sued Anthropic and two of its founders on August 28, 2026 in the Northern District of California. The 48-page complaint sets out four counts and asks for statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work. The request that reaches furthest is not the money. It asks the court to order an accounting of the training data, the training methods and the known capabilities of Anthropic models.

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The court voided the risk label on Anthropic and enjoined the measures, but rejected the ultra vires claim

Judge Rita Lin struck down the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation on August 27 as First Amendment retaliation and a due process violation, and permanently enjoined it. Read past the headline and the judgment is split: Anthropic lost its ultra vires count outright, and lost against five agencies and against the Executive Office of the President.

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