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David L. Greene opposes Google’s motion to dismiss complaint with state law claims related to alleged use of his voice

Former NPR host of “All Things Considered,” David L. Greene has filed his opposition to Google’s motion to dismiss his state law claims for alleged appropriation of his voice. Google argues his claims are preempted by the Copyright Act. Greene argues they are not. The suit is before Judge Breyer. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD GREENE’S OPPOSITION
Read more: David L. Greene opposes Google’s motion to dismiss complaint with state law claims related to alleged use of his voice
Darius H. James seeks to file First Amended Complaint v. Cerebras Systems after adding Lieff Cabraser lawyers

Author Darius H. James has filed for leave to file a First Amended Complaint. James recently added lawyers from Lieff Cabraser law firm, who are heavily involved representing book authors in multiple suits against AI companies. The proposed First Amended Complaint adds a claim for contributory infringement. The claims relate to Cerebras Systems’ creation of…
Read more: Darius H. James seeks to file First Amended Complaint v. Cerebras Systems after adding Lieff Cabraser lawyers
Anthropic cites Judge Chhabria’s relating new lawsuits filed v. Meta by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Carreyrou, Cognella to Kadrey v. Meta.

Anthropic has cited Judge Chhabria’s decision to relate the recently filed lawsuits v. Meta by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cambronne, and Cognella, respectively. Anthropic has asked Judge Martínez-Olguín, who was assigned Bartz v. Anthropic following Judge Alsup’s retirement, to relate the recently filed lawsuits v. Anthropic by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cambronne (aka…
Read more: Anthropic cites Judge Chhabria’s relating new lawsuits filed v. Meta by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Carreyrou, Cognella to Kadrey v. Meta.
Musk v. Altman trial week 3: Ilya Sutskever provides captivating testimony favorable to OpenAI

Week 3 of the Musk v. Altman trial started off big. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified about the company’s investment in OpenAI, initially $1 billion, of which Nadella said he was proud to be the first company to back OpenAI. Nadella also testified about the “chaos” ensuing the attempted firing of Sam Altman and Nadella’s…
Read more: Musk v. Altman trial week 3: Ilya Sutskever provides captivating testimony favorable to OpenAI
Thomson Reuters, ROSS Intelligence disagree on meaning of Third Circuit’s ASTM v. UpCodes in supplemental briefs asked by Third Circuit

The Third Circuit asked the parties in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence for supplemental briefs (on top of the supplemental letters) on how the Third Circuit’s own fair use decision in American Society for Testing & Materals v. UpCodes applies to their case. The fact that the Third Circuit has now 2 fair use appeals…
Read more: Thomson Reuters, ROSS Intelligence disagree on meaning of Third Circuit’s ASTM v. UpCodes in supplemental briefs asked by Third Circuit
Recently filed lawsuits by Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Meta, Carreyrou v. Meta, and Cognella v. Meta, all filed by same law firm, now related to Kadrey v. Meta

Judge Chhabria just granted pending motions to relate, to Kadrey v. Meta, the following cases: Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Meta, Carreyrou v. Meta, and Cognella Inc. v. Meta, all filed by the same law firms of Stris & Maher and Freedman Norman Friedland LLP. The latter 3 cases all involve book authors and…
Read more: Recently filed lawsuits by Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Meta, Carreyrou v. Meta, and Cognella v. Meta, all filed by same law firm, now related to Kadrey v. Meta
Was ImageNet offered illegally? Copyright suit over ImageNet dataset, EVOX Productions v. Stanford University, puts academic AI research under new scrutiny

Earlier, in March 2026, Stanford University filed its Answer to the Second Amended Complaint filed by EVOX Productions. EVOX is the producer of car photographs alleged to be used by Stanford researchers without licenses as a part of its ImageNet dataset. Stanford’s defenses are no surprise. The ImageNet dataset of images scraped from the Internet…
Read more: Was ImageNet offered illegally? Copyright suit over ImageNet dataset, EVOX Productions v. Stanford University, puts academic AI research under new scrutiny
OpenAI faces most copyright lawsuits. But other AI companies face multiple lawsuits, too.

Nearly four years into the AI Copyright Wars, more than 100 copyright lawsuits have been filed against AI companies. But the number of lawsuits by AI company is not equal. OpenAI faces the most lawsuits by far. Here’s a look at the Top 18 AI Companies by Number of Copyright Suits: Download a PDF of…
Read more: OpenAI faces most copyright lawsuits. But other AI companies face multiple lawsuits, too.
How we can survive AI. Ben Sasse’s WSJ Op-Ed

Ben Sasse has Stage 4 metatastic cancer. Based on his initial 4-month prognosis, he should be already dead as he discussed recently. In today’s Wall Street Journal, he wrote an Op-Ed on “Habits for Humanity in the Age of AI.” The article is “adapted from his speech accepting the Manhattan Institute’s Alexander Hamilton Award on…
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Are university AI researchers now at risk of facing copyright suits for acquiring or using unlicensed materials, or models trained on them?

When I spoke at the NeurIPS conference a couple years ago, I prodded the audience full of AI researchers from universities to think about their roles in the ongoing debate over the acquisition and use of copyrighted materials to research, develop, and train AI models. I didn’t say it there but said it in my…
Read more: Are university AI researchers now at risk of facing copyright suits for acquiring or using unlicensed materials, or models trained on them?
Udio admits to using music from YouTube videos as training data

On April 29, 2026, Udio aka Uncharted Labs filed its Answer to Sony Music Entertainment’s First Amended Complaint. Noteworthy is Udio’s admission (long assumed) that it used the music files from YouTube videos to train its AI models: Although this admission received media attention, it was not surprising. Udio is filing its Answer now after…
Read more: Udio admits to using music from YouTube videos as training data
Anthropic asks Judge Martinez-Olguin to deem Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cognella lawsuits as related cases to Bartz v. Anthropic

Although Judge Martínez-Olguín expressed doubt of Anthropic’s earlier notice to seek a related case status between Carreyrou v. Anthropic and Bartz v. Anthopic, Anthropic has formally asked the Judge to consider related case status with two recently filed lawsuits Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Anthropic and Cognella, Inc. v. Anthropic. Presumably, because Judge Pitts…
Read more: Anthropic asks Judge Martinez-Olguin to deem Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cognella lawsuits as related cases to Bartz v. Anthropic
Stanford University sued for copyright infringement based on Stanford AI researchers’ compilation of unlicensed images in ImageNet dataset, one of the most important datasets in the history of AI research

In January 2023, with the release of AI generators, I predicted copyright lawsuits will be filed against AI companies. I was right. Within the same week, the 1st lawsuit against generative AI companies was filed. The first of many to come. Then, upon researching the origin of AI training, which started at universities, I predicted…
Read more: Stanford University sued for copyright infringement based on Stanford AI researchers’ compilation of unlicensed images in ImageNet dataset, one of the most important datasets in the history of AI research
Judge Engelmayer excuses Perplexity’s use of 24-point line spacing instead of double

This is the kind of formatting issue that lawyers lose sleep over. Reddit discovered that Perplexity’s brief for its motion to dismiss was filed in 24-point line spacing (which is common for legal briefs in jurisdictions requiring 28 lines per page) instead of double spacing (slightly wider) required by the court. Reddit explained this was…
Read more: Judge Engelmayer excuses Perplexity’s use of 24-point line spacing instead of double
Judge Breyer agrees with Google and denies stay of its motion to dismiss in David L. Greene lawsuit

Judge Breyer just agreed with Google and denied the stay request on Google’s motion to dismiss of plaintiff David L. Greene, former host of NPR’s All Things Considered. Greene was hoping Judge Breyer would decide his motion to remand the state law case back to state court first. But Judge Breyer wants briefing on that…
Read more: Judge Breyer agrees with Google and denies stay of its motion to dismiss in David L. Greene lawsuit

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