A group of bestselling authors including John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult filed an amended complaint adding Microsoft as a defendant in their lawsuit against OpenAI in Manhattan federal court late Monday, noting that Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI and holds a significant stake in OpenAI’s for-profit arm.
The authors and co-plaintiff The Authors Guild, a professional organization for writers, are represented by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard in the proposed class action copyright infringement suit.

Sam Altman, left, appears onstage with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI’s first developer conference on Nov. 6, 2023, in San Francisco. Photo: Barbara Ortutay/AP

