January 2025 – Page 5 – Chat GPT Is Eating the World

Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg said and did that the Boies firm thinks are smoking guns. Just how bad are they for Meta?

Now that the parties have filed unredacted versions of their briefs, we know what the David Boies law firm thinks are smoking guns from the discovery they received from Mark Zuckerberg. Just how damaging are they? Boies represents the Kadrey plaintiffs in the proposed class action for book authors against Meta. Well, here’s the unredacted…
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Judge Chhabria chastises Meta for “preposterous” sealing request of discovery materials to “avoid negative publicity” to Meta

In denying Meta’s request to file under seal certain documents attached to the Plaintiffs’ motion and Meta’s opposition regarding the filing of a Third Amended Complaint, Judge Chhabria didn’t hold back. Judge Chhabria called Meta’s request to seal the documents as “preposterous.” Meta’s request is preposterous. With one possible exception, there is not a single…
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Judge Tigar issues protective order for Nazemian, Dubus lawsuits v. NVIDIA

Judge Tigar issued the protective order related to discovery in the lawsuits for Nazemian and Dubus against NVIDIA. This is pretty standard for these cases.
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Hearing today before Judge Chhabria on Kadrey plaintiffs’ motion to add DMCA and CA state law claims v. Meta after Mark Zuckerberg deposition

Today, Jan. 9, 2025, at 10 AM PDT, Judge Chhabria holds an important hearing on the Kadrey (book authors’) plaintiffs motion for leave to file a Third Amended Complaint to add, again, a DMCA CMI claim and a claim under the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA) Section 502. The Kadrey plaintiffs…
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Getty Images to merge with Shutterstock

Getty Images and Shutterstock are planning to merge into a company valued at $3.7 billion, a response in part to the disruptions caused by AI. According to the WSJ, Getty CEO Peters said: “We think, when you combine that with AI, there is upside on the AI front, not downside.” “Paul [Hennessy] and I firmly…
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Jensen Huang previews the future of AI–and robots at CES 2025

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, gave a bold preview of what he envisions for the future of AI and robots at CES 2025. Sporting a glittery leather jacket, Huang dazzled the audience.
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Anthropic valued at $60B

As reported first by the Wall Street Journal, the company Anthropic is seeking to raise $2 billion in new funding that values the AI startup at $60 billion. That is three times its valuation in 2024. However, it pales in comparison to OpenAI’s valuation of $157 billion.
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Parties in Nazemian, Dubus v. NVIDIA submit case management statement

The Nazemian and Dubus plaintiffs and NVIDIA submitted their case management statement to Judge Tigar. A preview of their fair use arguments: Plaintiffs’ PositionThe legal and factual issue at the core of this case is whether Defendant’s unlawful copying has violated the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 501, et seq. NVIDIA has indicated that it…
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Updated the Master List of AI copyright lawsuits. Current total 38.

New year, new list. We updated the Master List of Copyright Lawsuits against AI companies. The current total is 38 lawsuits, some of which are consolidated before the same judge and in the same proceeding. With our update, we changed the order of cases to start with the Northern District of California, which has the…
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Copyright Clearance Center memo to New York Times re: CCC’s plan to offer rightsholders ability to license for AI training should remain under seal

It looks the parties in the New York Times v. OpenAI lawsuit agree that a memo and an email that the Copyright Clearance Center sent to the New York Times should remain under seal. They are exhibits to OpenAI’s motion. You can learn more about CCC’s AI licensing program here. Said the New York Times:…
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Month: January 2025