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Judge Tigar dismisses vicarious liability claim but allows all others by Nazemian v. NVIDIA

In the lawsuit filed by book authors Nazemian against NVIDIA, Judge Tigar is allowing all of the claims against NVIDIA to proceed except for the vicarious infringement claim. It’s not surprising, but the analysis of the contributory infringement claim deserves attention below. Excerpt: Court’s Analysis of post-Cox Contributory Infringement Claim Interesting is Judge Tigar’s analysis…
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Is Claude killing Anthropic’s copyrights?

I continue to be most surprised by how publicly Anthropic is boasting about how Claude Code is writing all lines of computer code at Anthropic. Here’s Claude Code head Boris Cherny recently stating: We use Claude for literally everything. There’s no more manually written code anywhere at the company [Anthropic]. All of the SQL is…
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OpenAI lawyer methodically dissects Elon Musk’s case via Greg Brockman testimony

OpenAI trial lawyer Sarah Eddy has been methodically dissecting Elon Musk’s claim of breach of charitable trust through the testimony of OpenAI President Greg Brockman. Brockman is the source of the most damaging evidence to OpenAI by contemporaneous diary notes he took during the relevant period. For example: But, during his testimony elicited by Eddy,…
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Meta asks Judge Chhabria to relate Cambronne (aka Carreyrou) v. Meta

Meta is seeking directly from Judge Chhabria the designation of Cambronne Inc. v. Meta as related to Kadrey v. Meta. Meta and Cambronne originally asked Judge Pitts to invite such consideration from Judge Chhabria, but Judge Pitts scratched out that idea in a joint stipulation of the parties. Unclear if that was simply as a…
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Mark Zuckerberg is sued for copyright infringement by Elsevier and book publishers. Total hits 105.

Elsevier and other book publishers have filed today a copyright suit against Mark Zuckerberg as well as Meta. The suit was filed in the Southern District of New York. The publishers allege copyright infringement in torrenting of datasets from shadow libraries, web scraping, training AI models, along with contributory infringement and removal of CMI in…
Read more: Mark Zuckerberg is sued for copyright infringement by Elsevier and book publishers. Total hits 105.
Cognella publisher, represented by same firm representing author John Carreyrou, sues Meta and Anthropic. But separately, not in omnibus suit. Total hits 104.

Cognella, Inc., an academic publisher, just sued both Anthropic and Meta for alleged copyright infringement in training their AI models. Cognella is represented by the same law firms representing the plaintiffs in Carreyrou v. Anthropic and ChickenSoup for the Soul v. Meta. But this time, Stris & Maher and Freedman Normand Friedland LLP have decided…
Read more: Cognella publisher, represented by same firm representing author John Carreyrou, sues Meta and Anthropic. But separately, not in omnibus suit. Total hits 104.
John Carreyrou’s copyright suit v. OpenAI now officially joined with MDL cases v. OpenAI

Judge Stein now has the the lawsuit Carreyrou et al v. OpenAI, Inc. et al, at the new Docket No. 1:26-cv-03625. This case was once a part of the omnibus copyright lawsuit filed by Carreyrou against 8 different AI companies. The relevant parties stipulated to a severance and a transfer, which Judge Thompson had granted…
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Apress Media gets default v. Anna’s Archive

Apress Media obtained a default against the controversial online “shadow library” Anna’s Archive. This is the second recent lawsuit against Anna’s Archive resulting in a default due to a lack of response from Anna’s Archive. The first, Atlantic Recordings v. Anna’s Archive, has already resulted in a default judgment. Both suits are before Judge Rakoff…
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Motion to dismiss briefing schedule set in Ted Entertainment v. Bytedance

Judge Scott Corley issued the order, by joint stipulation of the parties in Ted Entertainment v. Bytedance, setting the schedule for the briefing on motion to dismiss. The initial case management conference won’t be until October 7, 2026.
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How did OpenAI fumble its lead in AI?

How It Started in 2022 In late 2022, a relatively unknown startup called OpenAI launched ChatGPT. That “ChatGPT moment” changed the trajectory of technology and society. It ushered in the Age of AI. Microsoft, too, benefited from this ChatGPT moment. Its partnership with OpenAI gave it access to OpenAI’s models that Microsoft soon deployed in…
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Meta answers Entrepreneur Media’s Complaint

Following the denial of Meta’s motion to dismiss Entrepreneur Media’s Complaint, Meta has filed its Answer. Nothing surprising in the Answer. DOWNLOAD THE ANSWER OF META Related Story
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David L. Greene, former host of All Things Considered, seeks a remand back to state court in suit v. Google

David L. Greene has filed a motion to remand his suit against Google back to California state court after Google removed it to federal court in David L. Greene v. Google. Greene was the former host of NPR’s Morning Edition and current podcaster. He alleges various state law claims against Google for allegedly using recordings of…
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Bartz Class Counsel files updated proposed order ahead of May 14 final approval of settlement hearing

At the Court’s instruction, the Bartz Class Counsel have filed an updated proposed order related to the pending motions for final approval of the class settlement and award of attorneys’ fees. This was needed to account for the additional time the Court gave to file objections. The new proposed order includes any new objections filed.…
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US copyright cases v. AI hits 101. Cambronne v. Meta severed from Cambronne v. Anthropic.

Author John Carreyrou’s lawsuit against the US AI industry started out small. But it may end up spawing 8 different lawsuits against 8 different U.S. AI companies. Already Cambronne v. OpenAI has been severed and sent to the MDL Litigation. And now Cambronne v. Meta has been severed, too. Both were severed by joint stipulation…
Read more: US copyright cases v. AI hits 101. Cambronne v. Meta severed from Cambronne v. Anthropic.
Opening briefs filed in Concord Music Group v. Anthropic I. Follow new page.

The opening briefs for summary judgment motions in Concord Music v. Anthropic I. Responsive briefs have been pushed back due to a temporary stay issued by Judge Lee. We created a new page for you to follow along. Click below to go to the briefs: *Full disclosure: I was a part of Copyright Law Professors’…
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