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What are the odds the Supreme Court finds AI training is fair use (versus infringement)?
Read more: What are the odds the Supreme Court finds AI training is fair use (versus infringement)?It’s interesting to listen to people’s reactions to Judge Bibas’s stunning reversal in ruling that ROSS Intelligence’s training of its AI model on copyrighted Westlaw headnotes for uncopyrightable judicial decisions was not transformative or different in purpose, and, ultimately, not a fair use. Jason Calacanis of the All In podcast interpreted the decision as suggesting…
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Judge Wu vacates motions to dismiss filed before amended complaint
Read more: Judge Wu vacates motions to dismiss filed before amended complaintJudge Wu vacated all the defendants’ motions to dismiss because they were filed before the plaintiffs’ more recently filed First Amended Complaint.
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Calendar for Copyright Cases v. AI Companies
Read more: Calendar for Copyright Cases v. AI CompaniesWe finally had time to compile a master calendar for the copyright cases against AI companies to track the key hearings and other events in the cases. Here’s our calendar for the next 3 months. We will update if we find things we are missing. Download a PDF of this calendar:
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Judge Bibas Then and Now on fair use in training AI models. Side by side comparison of Judge’s analysis.
Read more: Judge Bibas Then and Now on fair use in training AI models. Side by side comparison of Judge’s analysis.It’s useful to compare Judge Bibas’s fair use analysis of the purpose of the defendant ROSS’s use of Westlaw’s copyrighted headnotes for legal decisions. Two things are apparent: 1. While Judge Bibas cautioned in 2023 about “over-reading” the Warhol decision, Judge Bibas in 2025 basically has read Warhol to apply in a way that eliminates…
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New York Times, OpenAI, Microsoft try to hammer out deposition coordination, other discovery disputes
Read more: New York Times, OpenAI, Microsoft try to hammer out deposition coordination, other discovery disputesThe parties in the consolidated newspaper lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft asked Magistrate Judge Wang to hold a settlement conference to facilitate an arrangement for coordinated depositions of witnesses, including in the book authors’ consolidated lawsuits and lawsuits in California. They say they are close to reaching an arrangement. They also filed a master chart…
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OpenAI Board rejects Elon Musk’s offer to buy OpenAI
Read more: OpenAI Board rejects Elon Musk’s offer to buy OpenAIOpenAI’s Board issued a statement rejecting Elon Musk’s $97 billion offer to buy OpenAI, even though Elon Musk has his own AI company called xAI. Musk has also sued OpenAI and Microsoft alleging various claims, including antitrust violations. This is the second lawsuit Musk has brought against OpenAI, a company that he formerly provided funding…
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Adding Cohere lawsuit, updated Map of all 39 copyright suits v. AI
Read more: Adding Cohere lawsuit, updated Map of all 39 copyright suits v. AIDownload the PDF of all 39 copyright lawsuits against AI companies in the United States. The new lawsuit this week is Advance Local Media v. Cohere filed in the Southern District of New York. Related posts