October 30, 2026. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other open knowledge projects , today filed an amicus brief — or friend of the court opinion — with the Southern District Court of New York in In re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (12 combined lawsuits against OpenAI, the most well-known of them being The New York Times Co. v Microsoft and OpenAI ) urging the court to protect the open knowledge ecosystem in its decision. In the key case, the court will rule on whether the use of copyrighted content by artificial intelligence (AI) companies to develop large language models (LLMs) constitutes fair use .

Because of the significance of the jurisdiction and the parties involved, and because only a few cases have addressed this issue already, the ruling here will be highly influential as more courts grapple with interpreting the law in light of new technological uses.…