from the so-many-briefs dept

Last week Cathy wrote about the amicus brief we filed in the big multi-district litigation (MDL) that consolidated a bunch of different lawsuits claiming that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed the plaintiffs’ copyrights by training AI models on their works. A lot of people and groups offered proposed amicus briefs. For boring procedural reasons, unlike in most cases, you couldn’t just file the briefs, but rather everyone had to ask permission from the court, which meant that each attempted filing involved multiple filings, and many potential amici used different processes to try to file their briefs. Oh, and the docket is already at almost 2,500 entries . It’s a mess.

So, if you want to review all of the proposed amicus briefs, I’ve embedded below a tool to look at all of the briefs.…