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Apple, now represented by Dale Cendali, asks court to dismiss DMCA claim by YouTube creators Ted Entertainment

Apple, now represented by Dale Cendali of Kirkland & Ellis and a team of lawyers from Kirkland and Latham & Watkins, just filed a motion to dismiss the YouTube creators Ted Entertainment’s DMCA anti-circumvention claim. Apple’s argument is the same one being made in other DMCA lawsuits related to YouTube videos that they are not…
Read more: Apple, now represented by Dale Cendali, asks court to dismiss DMCA claim by YouTube creators Ted Entertainment
Judge Pitts to preside over cluster of Anthropic book author suits in ND California

Judge Pitts made it official: nearly all of the later filed book author and publisher suits against Anthropic are now related cases to Cambronne aka Carreyrou v. Anthropic. The related cases designation means Judge Pitts will get all these other cases too (original judge assignments noted): Judge Pitts’ order didn’t include the recently filed lawsuit…
Read more: Judge Pitts to preside over cluster of Anthropic book author suits in ND California
New copyright shareholder derivative suit v. Microsoft, its directors & officers. Microsoft becomes 2d company hit with new legal theory.

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 on the allegation that corporate officers or the board of directors approved copyright infringement, exposed the company to substantial risk of copyright liability, or made material misrepresentations about such conduct.…
Read more: New copyright shareholder derivative suit v. Microsoft, its directors & officers. Microsoft becomes 2d company hit with new legal theory.
Parties in Mosaic LLM case file summary judgment motions on infringement and fair use

We created a new page of the summary judgment briefs in In re Mosaic LLM Litigation before Judge Charles Breyer. Other than the case on appeal (ROSS Intelligence), only 4 cases of the AI copyright lawsuits have entered the summary judgment stage: Kadrey, Bartz, Concord Music I, and now In re Mosaic LLM. As shown…
Read more: Parties in Mosaic LLM case file summary judgment motions on infringement and fair use
Kadrey files reply to support bid for interlocutory appeal of downloading issue

The Kadrey book authors filed their reply in support of their bid to have Judge Chhabria certify, for interlocutory appeal, the part of his ruling on the initial acquisition of books from online sources. Judge Chhabria ruled that Meta’s downloading was for the purpose to train Meta’s AI models, in granting partial summary judgment on…
Read more: Kadrey files reply to support bid for interlocutory appeal of downloading issue
Suno sued again. 5th copyright suit in U.S. and 7th total worldwide.

Similar to its copyright suit filed against NVIDIA, S.A. Jamendo sued Suno for copyright infringement in its alleged use of Jamendo’s open-source music dataset. This is the 5th copyright suit against Suno in the United States and 7th worldwide. EXCERPT: * * * DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT: Related Story
Read more: Suno sued again. 5th copyright suit in U.S. and 7th total worldwide.
Disney seeks to invalidate Hailuo AI’s Terms of Use in Disney’s Answer to Nanoble’s counterclaim that Disney violated Terms of Use

The chess match continues. Disney, Universal City Studios, and Warner Brothers filed their answer to the counterclaims raised by defendant Nanoble, provider of Hailuo AI generator. Nanoble’s Counterclaims v. Movie Studios Nanoble filed a counterclaim against the movie studios alleging that they violated the Terms of Use of Hailuo AI in generating the allegedly infringing…
Read more: Disney seeks to invalidate Hailuo AI’s Terms of Use in Disney’s Answer to Nanoble’s counterclaim that Disney violated Terms of Use
Anthropic works out agreement with U.S. gov’t to allow Mythos to 100 approved US companies. US gov’t now reviews frontier AI models. Is it mandatory?

The U.S. government and Anthropic hashed out an agreement to allow the launch of its most powerful model Mythos only to 100 pre-approved U.S. government agencies and companies. Anthropic’s Fable 5 is still shelved from public use. The Trump Administration’s voluntary collaborative review of powerful AI models appears to be expected by the U.S. government…
Read more: Anthropic works out agreement with U.S. gov’t to allow Mythos to 100 approved US companies. US gov’t now reviews frontier AI models. Is it mandatory?
Daily News plaintiffs follow New York Times’ strategy in seeking to drop contributory infringement claims v. OpenAI and trademark dilution claims as well

The legal claims are dropping like hot potatoes in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation. The Daily News and other news plaintiffs are following the New York Times’ strategy in asking Judge Stein to allow them to abandon, with prejudice, their claims for contributory infringement against OpenAI, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in…
Read more: Daily News plaintiffs follow New York Times’ strategy in seeking to drop contributory infringement claims v. OpenAI and trademark dilution claims as well
Kadrey asks for additional discovery re: newly discovered Meta employees who allegedly involved in torrenting or concealment

In a heavily redacted filing, book authors Kadrey are asking for additional discovery related to what they say are newly identified Meta employees who allegedly partook of the torrenting of copies of their works from shadow libraries or attempted to conceal it. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD KADREY’S MOTION
Read more: Kadrey asks for additional discovery re: newly discovered Meta employees who allegedly involved in torrenting or concealment
AOC introduces Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, companion to Bernie Sanders’ bill in Senate. Data centers biggest AI flashpoint today.

AI data centers are now the biggest AI flashpoint. Public officials who support new data centers do so at their own political peril. Tuesday’s primaries toppled three Republican politicians who voted to approve Mr. Wonderful Kevin O’Leary’s data center in Utah, including the Senate President Stuart Adams who had been in office since 2009 and…
Read more: AOC introduces Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, companion to Bernie Sanders’ bill in Senate. Data centers biggest AI flashpoint today.
New York Times abandons contributory infringement claim v. OpenAI in light of Supreme Court’s Cox decision

After OpenAI filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings that the New York Times could not meet the intent standard for contributory infringement set forth by the Supreme Court in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, we wrote: “OpenAI’s brief seems quite strong in its explanation of the Supreme Court’s decision in Cox.“ The New…
Read more: New York Times abandons contributory infringement claim v. OpenAI in light of Supreme Court’s Cox decision
Alcon Entertainment wants to depose Elon Musk over alleged infringement of Bladerunner 2049

Alcon Entertainment is asking Judge Wu to compel the deposition of Elon Musk in the lawsuit over his and Tesla’s alleged infringement of the movie Blade Runner 2049. Alcon Entertainment’s position excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE PARTIES’ POSITIONS
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AI Data Center War topples Republican Senate President Stuart Adam, who voted to approve Mr. Wonderful Kevin O’Leary data center in Utah. Two Box Elder County commissioners who supported data center voted out too.

The people of Utah and Box Elder County have spoken. They defeated the Republican Utah Senate President Stuart Adams, who has been in office since 2008. Adams had supported the building of a new data center by Mr. Wonderful Kevin O’Leary’s company, O’Leary Digital. Stephanie Hollist, a lawyer, won the primary. Hollist opposed the data…
Read more: AI Data Center War topples Republican Senate President Stuart Adam, who voted to approve Mr. Wonderful Kevin O’Leary data center in Utah. Two Box Elder County commissioners who supported data center voted out too.
Platkin firm joins the AI copyright lawsuits in representing newspapers in Richner Communications v. Microsoft, OpenAI

Matthew J Platkin of Platkin LLP represents the 35 newspaper-publisher plaintiffs in the newly filed case, Richner Communications v. Microsoft, OpenAI, the 121st lawsuit against AI companies. From his firm bio: “From 2022 to 2026, Matt served as New Jersey’s 62nd Attorney General. In that role, he led national lawsuits that reshaped industries, defended our democracy,…
Read more: Platkin firm joins the AI copyright lawsuits in representing newspapers in Richner Communications v. Microsoft, OpenAI

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last updated May 23, 2026. Current total = 113 suits in U.S.

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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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