Alter v. OpenAI and Microsoft — Authors Guild with George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult et al. MDL 1:25-md-03143.
Key timeline from filings: Oct-Nov 2018 Alec Radford downloads ~117,500 LibGen books; Apr 2019 Altman shares Gates doc citing LibGen; June 2019 Microsoft $1B investment; July 2019 Slack “sketchy russian website” optics concern; June 2022 “Project Clear” to excise LibGen from systems.
Covers 194 books in motion. Plaintiff source — verify against court documents.