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Brave Software v. News Corp. After cease & desist letter, Brave sues for declaratory judgment that search engine indexing of News Corp. content is not infringement. Nor is use of Brave w/ AI chatbots.
Read more: Brave Software v. News Corp. After cease & desist letter, Brave sues for declaratory judgment that search engine indexing of News Corp. content is not infringement. Nor is use of Brave w/ AI chatbots.A new copyright lawsuit involving AI. But this one was brought by the company behind the search engine Brave. It seeks a declaratory judgment of noninfringement. After receiving a cease and desist letter from News Corp., Brave Software filed a lawsuit instead. It seeks a declaration that its indexing of News Corp. web content is…
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The latest update to our Master List of copyright suits v. AI companies
Read more: The latest update to our Master List of copyright suits v. AI companiesWe updated our Master List of copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Updates include the addition of Advanced Local Media v. Cohere, the recent decisions by Judge Bibas, Judge Chhabria, and Judge Rakoff, and the inclusion of the lawsuit against Meta in France.
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Dow Jones & Co. filed its opposition to Perplexity’s motion to dismiss or to transfer venue
Read more: Dow Jones & Co. filed its opposition to Perplexity’s motion to dismiss or to transfer venueDow Jones & Company just filed its opposition to Perplexity’s motion to dismiss, or, in the alternative, motion to transfer venue to the Northern District of California.
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5 months added to Scheduling Order in Concord Music v. Anthropic
Read more: 5 months added to Scheduling Order in Concord Music v. AnthropicJudge Lee just granted the parties’ stipulation in adding 5 more months to the Scheduling Order deadlines.
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Judge Bibas order re pretrial deadlines in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence
Read more: Judge Bibas order re pretrial deadlines in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS IntelligenceHaving considered the joint letter regarding 2025 Pretrial Deadlines (D.I. 778 ), I ORDER the parties to follow the pretrial deadlines proposed by Thomson Reuters. I agree that my revised summary judgment opinion primarily narrowed the scope of the trial. But I recognize that Ross may have understandably shifted its trial strategy due to the…
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Kadrey plaintiffs seek partial summary judgment that Meta’s torrenting of book files from pirated datasets is infringement, not fair use. Motion does not cover DMCA claim, fair use during training, or remedies.
Read more: Kadrey plaintiffs seek partial summary judgment that Meta’s torrenting of book files from pirated datasets is infringement, not fair use. Motion does not cover DMCA claim, fair use during training, or remedies.The Kadrey plaintiffs filed their motion for partial summary judgment. They ask the court to rule that Meta’s use of torrenting to download while allowing others to upload pirated copies of books from so-called shadow libraries. This unauthorized torrenting does not constitute fair use, the plaintiffs assert, citing the Second Circuit’s decision in Hachette v.…
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Magistrate Judge Illman denies in part Tremblay plaintiffs’ motion to compel discovery from nonparty Microsoft
Read more: Magistrate Judge Illman denies in part Tremblay plaintiffs’ motion to compel discovery from nonparty MicrosoftUpon further reflection, and upon careful consideration of the submissions, the courtagrees with Microsoft’s contention that “Plaintiffs’ allegation that Microsoft’s internal documentscould somehow be relevant to a willfulness claim against OpenAI also rings hollow.” Id. at 5. Thecourt also agrees with Microsoft’s assertion that Plaintiffs’ belief that Microsoft is in possession ofdocuments beyond those which…