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Month: April 2025

The Intercept files Second Amended Complaint v. OpenAI, Microsoft

The Intercept filed its Second Amended Complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft. It looks like the additions are two: (1) alleged abridgement of plaintiffs’ works in outputs, and (2) continuing violations. The number of DMCA claims remains the same at 3.
Read more: The Intercept files Second Amended Complaint v. OpenAI, Microsoft
Raw Story Media and Alternet ask Judge Stein to reconsider Judge McMahon’s denial of motion for leave to file amended complaint on 1202(b)(1) claim for intentional removal of CMI

Failing to persuade Judge McMahon to allow them to file an amended complaint to salvage their DMCA Section 1202(b)(1) claim for OpenAI’s alleged intentional removal of CMI, Raw Story Media tries again but now with Judge Stein, who has inherited all the copyright suits against OpenAI and Microsoft by transfer through Multi-district Litigation. I’m curious…
Read more: Raw Story Media and Alternet ask Judge Stein to reconsider Judge McMahon’s denial of motion for leave to file amended complaint on 1202(b)(1) claim for intentional removal of CMI
Meta reply in support of fair use in AI training, including torrenting of “pirated” books datasets. Meta also opposes Kadrey book authors’ motion for summary judgment on infringement based on torrenting books.

Meta filed its reply in support of its motion for summary judgment on fair use in AI training, including the torrenting of “pirated” copies of books datasets online. This brief is well-written. Will have more to say about it and Kadrey’s briefs, also well-written, in a subsequent post. Judge Chhabria will have much to ruminate…
Read more: Meta reply in support of fair use in AI training, including torrenting of “pirated” books datasets. Meta also opposes Kadrey book authors’ motion for summary judgment on infringement based on torrenting books.
New York Times seeks leave to file 2d Amended Complaint v. OpenAI, Microsoft to add same allegations of CMI removal as Daily News, CIR that survived motion to dismiss

The New York Times is seeking to file a Second Amended complaint to correct the deficiency in allegations in its First Amended Complaint’s 1202(b)(1) claim for intentional removal of CMI. The NYT parrots the same allegations as the Daily News’s and Center for Investigative Reporting’s complaints, which were more specific on the alleged removal of…
Read more: New York Times seeks leave to file 2d Amended Complaint v. OpenAI, Microsoft to add same allegations of CMI removal as Daily News, CIR that survived motion to dismiss
Anthropic asks Judge Alsup to seal parts of hearing transcript related to training datasets used by Anthropic

Anthropic is seeking to seal parts of the discovery hearing transcript related to the training datasets Anthropic used. Explains Anthropic: “As set forth in the Gillotte Sealing Declaration, the information that Anthropic seeks to redact reveals the name, source and contents of Anthropic’s datasets for Anthropic’s non- commercial and commercial models of Claude. (Gillotte Sealing…
Read more: Anthropic asks Judge Alsup to seal parts of hearing transcript related to training datasets used by Anthropic
UMG Recordings offers digital copies, instead of physical deposit copies, in response to Suno’s motion to compel.

Still reeling from losing on the same issue in the lawsuit it filed against Udio, UMG Recordings is trying to avoid the same result on the defendant’s motion to compel in the lawsuit it filed against Suno. UMG Recordings argues that it has already offered digital copies of the recordings relevant to its copyright claim–and…
Read more: UMG Recordings offers digital copies, instead of physical deposit copies, in response to Suno’s motion to compel.
ROSS Intelligence files petition to Third Circuit for interlocutory appeal in key AI copyright lawsuit

ROSS Intelligence filed its petition to the Third Circuit asking for an interlocutory appeal of the issues of copyrightability of Westlaw headnotes and ROSS’s fair use defense. Because Judge Bibas, who sits on the Third Circuit, certified these questions from his prior ruling in the district court, I expect the Third Circuit will grant this…
Read more: ROSS Intelligence files petition to Third Circuit for interlocutory appeal in key AI copyright lawsuit
Jason Allen hires Ryan Abbott in case v. Copyright Office on prompt-engineered visual work

Ryan Abbott, who represented Stephen Thaler in Thaler v. Perlmutter, is now representing the artist Jason Allen in his case against Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights. Allen is seeking a declaratory judgment that the Copyright Office’s refusal to allow a copyright registration for Allen’s prompt-engineered visual work was wrong as a matter of law.…
Read more: Jason Allen hires Ryan Abbott in case v. Copyright Office on prompt-engineered visual work
Sam Altman gets defensive when asked about “IP Theft” and Charlie Brown OpenAI generated cartoon.

TED CEO Chris Anderson interviewed Sam Altman and asked some tough questions about copyright and “IP theft.” Altman seemed to feel a bit of pique when a few audience members clapped in approval of Anderson’s question. A bit uncharacteristic of Altman. Take a listen. Transcript: Anderson: So this impressed me too. I asked it to…
Read more: Sam Altman gets defensive when asked about “IP Theft” and Charlie Brown OpenAI generated cartoon.
Kadrey files unredacted opposition brief to Meta’s motion for summary judgment on fair use. Kadrey alleges Meta destroyed torrenting upload logs related to torrenting of pirated books datasets.

Kadrey filed the unredacted opposition brief to Meta’s motion for summary judgment on fair use. Among the sentences unredacted were ones about the books datasets excerpted below. One new revelation is that Meta apparently destroyed (through allowing overwriting of logs) the files that were seeded to third parties during the process of torrenting of the…
Read more: Kadrey files unredacted opposition brief to Meta’s motion for summary judgment on fair use. Kadrey alleges Meta destroyed torrenting upload logs related to torrenting of pirated books datasets.