US judge in copyright case orders OpenAI to produce depositions from Musk trial
( May 21, 2026, 23:27 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A US magistrate judge overseeing discovery in US copyright lawsuits against OpenAI said the company must hand over deposition transcripts from the trial over Elon Musk’s claims that OpenAI violated its charitable mission through its partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI must produce the depositions of Chief Executive Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman and Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella, US Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang in New York said. "Here, the Plaintiffs have shown that the Musk depositions are relevant to OpenAI’s commercialization efforts — both on their own and to be used as prior inconsistent statements with the same witnesses’ later testimony in this case," Want said. See order attached: ...
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