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Month: April 2025

Bartz book authors oppose Anthropic’s summary judgment motion on fair use, citing Anthropic’s downloading pirated books

The Bartz book authors filed their opposition to Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment on fair use. Like the Kadrey book author plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Meta, the Bartz book authors argue that the downloading of digital copies of “pirated” books from illegal online sources is a separate use by Anthropic that cannot be fair…
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Latest Map of all 41 US copyright suits v. AI. New suit by Ziff Davis v. OpenAI.

We have an updated map of all U.S. copyright suits v. AI companies, 41 in total. Ziff Davis v. OpenAI was just filed in Delaware–but expect it will be transferred to Judge Sidney Stein in MDL litigation. We also added links to the 9th Circuit and 3rd Circuit dockets in Doe 1 v. Github and…
Read more: Latest Map of all 41 US copyright suits v. AI. New suit by Ziff Davis v. OpenAI.
Ziff Davis sues OpenAI for copyright infringement in Delaware. Total copyright suits in US v. AI companies hits 41.

Ziff Davis, the company that owns CNET, Mashable, ZDNet, IGN, PC Mag, MedPage Today, and a host of other online publications, sued OpenAI in Delaware for a host of claims including copyright infringement, DMCA 1202(b)(1), (b)(3), removal of CMI claims, and trademark dilution. The case has not been assigned to a judge yet, but we…
Read more: Ziff Davis sues OpenAI for copyright infringement in Delaware. Total copyright suits in US v. AI companies hits 41.
Kadrey objects to Meta’s reply evidence as improper

Kadrey objected to Meta’s reply evidence cited in its reply brief. Related Stories
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UMG Recordings seeks clarification from court re: producting “deposit copies” of their works

UMG Recordings, after losing to defendant’s motion to compel, is asking Judge Hellerstein to clarify if his order means it must produce the actual “deposit copies” with the Library of Congress or, instead, copies of those deposit copies with a declaration they are the same as what was deposited. UMG Recordings pointed to the proposed…
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Anthropic challenges class certification in heavily redacted brief concealing information related to datasets used

On April 17, Anthropic filed its opposition to the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification. A large portion of Anthropic’s brief is redacted. One intriguing argument by Anthropic is that the plaintiffs cannot identify a class due to the inability to ascertain whose books were used by Anthropic in their books datasets. The plaintiffs are proposing…
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Judge Lee is inclined to dismiss some of copyright claims v. Google, Alphabet in In re Google Generative AI Litigation

Judge Lee issued a tentative ruling on Google’s motion to dismiss the complaint in the consolidated cases filed by Leovy and Zhang. Judge Lee emailed the tentative to the parties and discussed it at today’s oral argument, but didn’t publish it. Today’s docket entry states: “Motion Hearing held on 4/23/2025 re 95 MOTION to Dismiss…
Read more: Judge Lee is inclined to dismiss some of copyright claims v. Google, Alphabet in In re Google Generative AI Litigation
Judge Lee strikes fail-safe class allegations v. Google in AI lawsuit but offers way plaintiffs can fix their complaint.

We are just beginning to wade into the class action issue in the copyright litigation against AI companies. Judge Lee just granted Google’s motion to strike the proposed class allegation by the Leovy and Zhang plaintiffs because it was an inappropriate “fail-safe” class, whose definition hinged on anyone who copyright was violated by Google in…
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OpenAI seeks extension to answer New York Times’ 1st amended complaint pending court’s ruling on Times’ motion to file 2d amended complaint

OpenAI asked Magistrate Judge Wang to grant an extension to answer the New York Times First Amended Complaint pending the court’s ruling on the New York Times’s motion for leave to file a second amended complaint to fix its allegations for the DMCA CMI 1202(b)(1) intentional removal of CMI claim. The request sounds eminently reasonable.…
Read more: OpenAI seeks extension to answer New York Times’ 1st amended complaint pending court’s ruling on Times’ motion to file 2d amended complaint
Infographic on Kadrey v. Meta summary judgment motions, Part I: Illegal file sharing v. Fair Use

Kadrey v. Meta is one of the most important copyright lawsuits involving AI. Judge Chhabria will hold oral argument on the parties’ motions for partial summary judgment on May 1, 10:00 AM in San Francisco federal court. We prepared a new infographic to summarize the main points each side is advancing in their motion for…
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