January 2025 – Page 4 – Chat GPT Is Eating the World

Judge Stein allows public listening via online audio of oral argument re: OpenAI, Microsoft’s motion to dismiss some of New York Times claims on Jan. 14, 10:30 AM EDT

Great news! Judge Sydney Stein issued an order allowing public listening via online audio of the oral argument regarding OpenAI’s and Microsoft’s motions to dismiss some of the New York Times’ claims on Jan. 14, 2025, 10:30 AM, in Courtroom 23A. The court’s order states: “IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that any person who wishes to listen-in…
Read more: Judge Stein allows public listening via online audio of oral argument re: OpenAI, Microsoft’s motion to dismiss some of New York Times claims on Jan. 14, 10:30 AM EDT
After rebuke of making “preposterous” request for sealing, Meta seeks more limited sealing of parts of exhibits to briefs re: Plaintiffs’ Third Amended Consolidated Complaint

After being publicly rebuked by Judge Chhabria for making a “preposterous” request to seal parts of briefs and related exhibits to Plaintiffs’ Third Amended Consolidated Complaint, Meta has filed a a revised request in more limited fashion, as Judge Chhabria invited in his original order. Meta does so “in an abundance of caution, and taking…
Read more: After rebuke of making “preposterous” request for sealing, Meta seeks more limited sealing of parts of exhibits to briefs re: Plaintiffs’ Third Amended Consolidated Complaint
Judge Chhabria grants Kadrey, represented by David Boies, leave to amend to file Third Amended Consolidated Complaint. Adds DMCA CMI claim, CA Computer Fraud Act claim. Plus, Kadrey gets to depose Meta about seeding of works via torrents.

As we predicted from what transpired at the hearing last week, which was a disaster for Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, Judge Chhabria granted the Kadrey plaintiffs, represented by the David Boies law firm, their motion for leave to file a Third Amended Consolidated Complaint (TACC). The actual TACC is still under seal but will soon…
Read more: Judge Chhabria grants Kadrey, represented by David Boies, leave to amend to file Third Amended Consolidated Complaint. Adds DMCA CMI claim, CA Computer Fraud Act claim. Plus, Kadrey gets to depose Meta about seeding of works via torrents.
Will Meta’s alleged “seeding” of pirated copies via BitTorrent come back to bite Meta & Mark Zuckerberg?

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. – Aeschylus In the United States, 38 copyright lawsuits have been filed against AI companies and uses of copyrighted materials to train or use AI. To our knowledge, until this week, none involved an allegation that an AI company was actually using file sharing software under…
Read more: Will Meta’s alleged “seeding” of pirated copies via BitTorrent come back to bite Meta & Mark Zuckerberg?
Lehrman (voice actor) plaintiffs file their opposition to Lovo’s motion to dismiss

The Lehrman plaintiffs (voice actors) filed their opposition to the defendant Lovo’s motion to dismiss. The outline of their argument is below, along with the brief.
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Judge Hellerstein issues Source Code Protective Order in UMG Recordings v. Uncharted Labs

Judge Hellerstein issued the protective order (as proposed by the parties) for source code that is subject to discovery. This is standard in these cases involving computer programs.
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Magistrate Judge Wang grants sealing of exhibits that contain business information and “Confidential” communications under protective order

In contrast with Judge Chhabria’s public rebuke of Meta’s sealing request as “preposterous” in Kadrey v. Meta, Magistrate Judge Wang granted all 25 motions to seal various exhibits and references to content in the exhibits made in the parties’ briefing and declarations. Some of the motions were jointly filed, while none were opposed by opposing…
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang grants sealing of exhibits that contain business information and “Confidential” communications under protective order
Databricks takes no position on appointing Joseph Saveri interim lead counsel

Databricks took no position on the Plaintiffs’ request that the Court “appoint Mr. [Joseph] Saveri as Interim Lead Counsel, with Mr. Clark, and Mr. Clobes as members of the Executive Committee.” Judge Breyer presides over the case.
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Parties dispute scope of discovery of OpenAI’s developing models

The parties in the In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation, consolidated cases brought by book authors, are fighting over the scope of documents discovery request — how much discovery should OpenAI be required to produce related to their in-development models. OpenAI has offered to produce documents related to in-development GPT models. The Plaintiffs want more information…
Read more: Parties dispute scope of discovery of OpenAI’s developing models
Meta, Mark Zuckerberg suffer disastrous week in AI copyright lawsuit by book authors

Disastrous. That’s the word that comes to mind to describe the setbacks that Meta faced this week in its defense against the proposed class action brought by the Kadrey book authors. Judge Chhabria publicly rebuked Meta for its proposed redactions of briefing related to the plaintiffs’ motion for leave to file a Third Amended Complaint,…
Read more: Meta, Mark Zuckerberg suffer disastrous week in AI copyright lawsuit by book authors

Month: January 2025