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Judge Lee denies Concord Music’s motion for preliminary injunction on Anthropic’s training of AI
Read more: Judge Lee denies Concord Music’s motion for preliminary injunction on Anthropic’s training of AIAt long last we finally have a decision on Concord Music’s motion for preliminary injunction. Judge Lee denied it. The motion was originally filed on Nov. 16, 2023 in the Middle District of Tennessee and was supported by amici briefs of stakeholders in the music industry. On Aug. 1, 2024, the motion was refiled in…
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Tesla, Elon Musk, Warner Brothers Discovery file replies to support their motions to dismiss Alcon Entertainment’s complaint
Read more: Tesla, Elon Musk, Warner Brothers Discovery file replies to support their motions to dismiss Alcon Entertainment’s complaintElon Musk, Tesla, and Warner Brothers Discovery filed their replies to support their motions to dismiss the complaint of Alcon Entertainment, the creator and copyright holder of the movie Bladerunner 2049.
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Judge Davila dismisses, without opposition, Millette’s state law claims v. OpenAI, Google, leaving only copyright claim. Millette voluntarily dismisses suit v. NVIDIA.
Read more: Judge Davila dismisses, without opposition, Millette’s state law claims v. OpenAI, Google, leaving only copyright claim. Millette voluntarily dismisses suit v. NVIDIA.One of the stranger set of lawsuits in the AI copyright litigation. Plaintiff David Millette filed originally only states law claims against OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA, but later added federal copyright claims. When OpenAI and Google filed motions to dismiss the state law claims in the respective lawsuits, Millette didn’t oppose them. Judge Davila just…
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Magistrate Judge Cisneros order re ESI and deposition protocol for Andersen v. Stability AI
Read more: Magistrate Judge Cisneros order re ESI and deposition protocol for Andersen v. Stability AIMagistrate Judge Cisneros issued an order resolving some of the parties’ disputes regarding an ESI protocol and deposition protocol. On the latter, Judge Cisneros split the difference and allowed the plaintiffs 30 depositions, not 60. “The thirty-deposition limit does not include depositions of non-parties, expert witnesses, of former employees.”
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Thomson Reuters, ROSS Intelligence fight over deposition designations
Read more: Thomson Reuters, ROSS Intelligence fight over deposition designationsROSS Intelligence asked for more time to submit its objections to Thomson Reuters’ deposition designations for the upcoming trial in May; ROSS will object to the expansion of Thomson Reuters’ depositions that it plans to designate. Thomson is fine with the extension but wants ROSS to narrow its objections.
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World Map of all copyright lawsuits v. AI companies
Read more: World Map of all copyright lawsuits v. AI companiesWe created a second map, this time of a world map of all copyright lawsuits in the world. The United States is still the epicenter of copyright litigation against AI companies. UPDATED: We updated the map on March 29, 2025. Please download the latest one here: Download a PDF of this world map of AI…
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Latest map of all 40 copyright suits v. AI in U.S.
Read more: Latest map of all 40 copyright suits v. AI in U.S.At the start of spring 2025, we hit 40 copyright lawsuits against AI companies. We added the declaratory judgment action filed by Brave Software against News Corp., which allegedly sent a cease and desist letter to Brave to stop crawling its sites in an unidentified manner. Download a PDF with clickable links to each docket:…
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Judge Hellerstein order re stipulated training data inspection protocol in UMG Recordings v. Udio
Read more: Judge Hellerstein order re stipulated training data inspection protocol in UMG Recordings v. UdioJudge Hellerstein issued a stipulated order regarding the training data inspection protocol in the UMG Recordings v. Udio lawsuit.