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Month: March 2025

Judge Chhabria grants additional discovery proposed by Kadrey plaintiffs v. Meta

Judge Chhabria accepted the proposed additional discovery of the plaintiffs: ORDER. The plaintiffs’ proposal for additional discovery is adopted. If it becomes apparent during the course of briefing on the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment that it would be unfair to Meta to preclude it from adding another expert to respond to the plaintiffs new…
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Judge Chhabria allows Kadrey plaintiffs to proceed against Meta with DMCA CMI claim 1202(b)(1). Dismisses Cal. computer fraud claim.

Judge Chhabria just issued his order granting Meta’s motion to dismiss the Kadrey plaintiffs’ California state law computer fraud claim (CDAFA). But the Judge denied Meta’s motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ DMCA CMI claim. This is no surprise given what the Judge said at the hearing, where he expressed skepticism about this claim. Article III…
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Lawyers from Susman Godrey added to represent book authors in Nazemian v. NVIDIA, In re Mosiac LLM Litigation

Seven lawyers from Susman Godfrey, the same firm representing the New York Times in its lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, have just been added to represent the plaintiff book authors in two different lawsuits: Nazemian v. NVIDIA and In re Mosaic LLM Litigation. It’s unclear whether the Susman Godfrey lawyers will take the lead for…
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Elon Musk, Tesla, Warner Brothers Discovery file motions to dismiss Alcon Entertainment’s First Amended Complaint

The defendants Elon Musk, Tesla, and Warner Brothers Discovery filed their motions to dismiss the First Amended Complaint filed by Alcon Entertainment for the defendants’ alleged use of an AI-generated image substantially similar to a still shot from the movie Blade Runner 2049.
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Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence letter re: dispute over proposed pretrial deadlines

With some outstanding issues unresolved by Judge Bibas’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters, the parties filed a letter outlining their proposed pretrial deadlines. ROSS proposes: Thomson proposes:
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Magistrate Judge denies Tremblay plaintiffs’ motion to compel third-party Reuters to produce information re any licensing deal with Meta, another non-party

In Tremblay v. OpenAI, Magistrate Judge Illman denied the plaintiffs’ motion to compel discovery from third-party Reuters to produce information relevant to any licensing deal with Meta. Tremblay argued that this information is relevant to whether a licensing market for content existed at the time OpenAI engaged in its unauthorized use of the plaintiffs’ works.…
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Kadrey v. Meta parties send letters to Judge Chhabria re scope of additional discovery

Plaintiffs position: Meta’s poison:
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Amid protest by 6,000 artists, Christie’s holds successful auction of AI-generated artworks, exceeding expected sales

Christie’s first auction for all AI-generated artworks went off without a hitch, despite the protest, in the form of an open letter, of 6,492 artists who demanded Christie’s to cancel the entire auction due to the creative use of AI. The auction had sales of the AI artworks of prominent artists, including Refik Anadol, Holly…
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US Copyright Office registers sound recording of opera with AI generated “music and singing voices”

The U.S. Copyright Office continues to grant registrations to copyrighted works with some elements that were AI-generated, provided that the human creator has (1) engaged in an original selection, coordination, or arrangement of elements or (2) added the creator’s own independently created elements. The company ironetic received a registration for Senzia Opera, registered as a…
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UMG Recordings v. Udio parties dispute discovery requires

The parties filed a joint statement over their discovery disputes to Judge Alvin Hellerstein.
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