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Paul Cappucio is Reddit’s New Chief Legal Officer

Paul Capuccio recently withdraw from representing Dow Jones in its copyright suit against Perplexity. He did so because he has been named Chief Legal Officer of Reddit. Reddit itself is involved in a couple copyright suits against AI companies. Here’s the announcement from Reddit: Cappuccio replaces Ben Lee, Reddit’s CLO since 2019, who is stepping…
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Thomson Reuters responds to ROSS Intelligence letter re: United States Statement of Interest on fair use

Thomson Reuters has files its reply to ROSS Intelligence’s 28(j) letter discussing the United States’ Statement of Interest on fair use. Thomson Reuters: Related Stories:
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Judge Davila finds Ted Entmt. v. Meta is not related to Ted Entmt. v. NVIDIA

Not suprisingly, Judge Davila found that Ted Entmt. v. Meta is not related to Ted Entmt. v. NVIDIA. The Meta cases remains with Judge Tigar. To my knowledge, no AI copyright cases were treated related even though they involved different AI companies.
Read more: Judge Davila finds Ted Entmt. v. Meta is not related to Ted Entmt. v. NVIDIA
Anthropic’s Jacob Coxon quits and calls Code Red on AI’s potential for human extinction by 2030. Post receives 100 million views.

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic. And he caused a firestorm in doing so. Coxon warns in a series of X posts, some of which are shown below: Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and…
Read more: Anthropic’s Jacob Coxon quits and calls Code Red on AI’s potential for human extinction by 2030. Post receives 100 million views.
Judge Lee relates EVOX Productions’ suit v. Google to In re Google Gen AI Litigation

Judge Lee also just related EVOX Productions’ suit against Google to the ongoing In re Google Generative AI Litigation. The only lawsuit against Google Judge Lee doesn’t have (yet) is Hachette v. Google filed in the Southern District of New York. Google is expected to file a motion to transfer that case to Judge Lee.
Read more: Judge Lee relates EVOX Productions’ suit v. Google to In re Google Gen AI Litigation
Judge Lee relates Sony Music v. Anthropic to Concord Music v. Anthropic

After relating the newly filed Sony Music lawsuit against Anthropic, Judge Lee is overseeing all the music copyright lawsuits against Anthropic. Judge Lee presides over copyright suits filed against Anthropic by: Seems a pretty efficient way to handle these lawsuits.
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FBI, NSA, CISA flags Chinese AI companies for “industrial-scale” distillation of AI models of U.S. companies

Three U.S. agencies — the FBI, NSA, and CISA — issued a report flagging numerous AI companies for engaging in “systematic extraction of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of U.S. AI companies’ models through industrial-scale knowledge distillation.” “While ‘distillation’ is recognized as a legitimate and useful technique in AI research, China-based AI companies are engaging in…
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Controversy swirls as OpenAI claims its internal AI model solve Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, provoking statement by NYU Prof. Tristan Buckmaster

The day after Labor Day was hardly a quiet return to work. After OpenAI announced its internal AI model solved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, with a $1 million award at stake, NYU Math Professor Tristan Buckmeister posted a 3-page single-spaced account stating that Levent Alpoge (coincidentally…
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Katelyn Gray sues Satya Nadella, Microsoft in 3rd copyright shareholder derivative suit testing new theory

Katelyn Gray just sued Satya Nadella, other directors and officers of Microsoft, and Microsoft in the 3rd copyright shareholder derivative lawsuit the company has faced, all in the Western District of Washington. The new theory of “copyright shareholder derivative” lawsuit is spreading. I’ve coined this term to describe shareholder derivative lawsuits under securities law that are based…
Read more: Katelyn Gray sues Satya Nadella, Microsoft in 3rd copyright shareholder derivative suit testing new theory
Unofficial English translation of Munich Regional Court’s decision in GEMA v. Suno

Here’s a Google automated translation of the Munich I Regional Court’s decision in GEMA v. Suno, Case No. 42 O 763/25). As best we can tell, there isn’t another one posted online. DOWNLOAD THE UNOFFICIAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION (MACHINE-GENERATED):
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“Whoever wins AI, wins,” says Pres. Trump after G20 meeting

During a week filled with a strong show from U.S. AI business executives at the G20 meeting in Miami, President Trump explained his Administration’s views on the AI arms race. We’re leading China in AI and whoever wins AI wins. That’s the power. This is bigger than the internet. This is this is a revolution.…
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EVOX Productions secures default in copyright suit v. Hugging Face (recently acquired by NVIDIA). Hugging Face failed to answer.

NVIDIA’s $19.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open source models as well as datasets, just got a bit more complicated. Hugging Face, one of the defendants in a copyright suit filed by the car imagery producer EVOX Productions, failed to answer the complaint after reportedly being served with a summons. After…
Read more: EVOX Productions secures default in copyright suit v. Hugging Face (recently acquired by NVIDIA). Hugging Face failed to answer.
7th Circuit affirms First Amendment bars criminal count for possessing fake AI-generated CSAM in Anderegg case

The Seventh Circuit recently affirmed the dismissal of one criminal charge for possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) that was AI-generated, meaning it did not involve real children. The court of appeals held, that under the Supreme Court’s decision in Stanley v. Georgia and Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, the government’s reasons to justify…
Read more: 7th Circuit affirms First Amendment bars criminal count for possessing fake AI-generated CSAM in Anderegg case
Daniel Grand used AI to study cert petitions and SCOTUS rules. His pro se cert petition was granted.

Pretty remarkable story out of University Heights, Ohio. Daniel Grand wrote and filed his cert petition to the Supreme Court on his own, pro se. Although he went to law school, he did not graduate. To study how cert petitions are constructed as well as the Supreme Court’s rules, he reportedly used AI, per the…
Read more: Daniel Grand used AI to study cert petitions and SCOTUS rules. His pro se cert petition was granted.
Summary judgment briefs in the OpenAI MDL lawsuits now up

We posted all the summary judgment briefs in the OpenAI MDL litigation just filed. Still missing the Books Plaintiffs’ brief but will post as soon as we get a copy of it. Click below to go to the briefs.
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last updated Dec. 5, 2025.

US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI

last updated Aug. 29, 2026. Current total = 138 suits in U.S.

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World Map of Copyright Lawsuits v. AI

last updated April 5, 2026. Current total = 130 copyright suits = 100 in U.S. + 30 in rest of world. (When updated, the current total = 143 = 113 in U.S. + 30 in rest of the world.)

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