Key holding or allegation
An April 2025 ruling allowed important contributory-infringement theories to proceed and treated different CMI theories separately.
Why it matters
Central publisher-versus-GenAI litigation covering training, outputs, substitution and CMI.
Facts
News publishers allege unauthorised use of articles in training and reproduction/substitution through generative outputs.
Issues before the court
Whether direct/secondary infringement and CMI theories were adequately pleaded and ultimately whether training/output practices infringe.
What the court did not decide
The court did not decide the ultimate legality or fair-use status of model training or final infringement liability.
Procedural timeline
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Motion-to-dismiss ruling: Important contributory-infringement theories survived while DMCA section 1202 claims were treated differently by defendant and theory.