Month: June 2025

More on Judge Alsup’s Solomonic decision finding fair use and infringement in Bartz v. Anthropic

Judge William Alsup issued the first decision on fair use and infringement in a generative AI case, Bartz v. Anthropic. It was a split decision: (1) copies used to train Anthropic’s AI model were “exceedingly transformative” and fair uses to develop a technology “among the most transformative many of us will see in our lifetimes,”…
Read more: More on Judge Alsup’s Solomonic decision finding fair use and infringement in Bartz v. Anthropic
Judge Alsup grants partial summary judgment to Anthropic, ruling training copies were fair use. But Judge rules no fair use in pirated copies of books used to build a central library. They are infringing.

Judge William Alsup just issued his order on summary judgment. It’s a major win for the plaintiffs Bartz, even though the court ruled that the use of copies to train Anthropic’s model were fair use. Significantly, the court also ruled that Anthropic’s acquisition of pirated books from shadow libraries (Books3, LibGen, and Pirate Library Mirror)…
Read more: Judge Alsup grants partial summary judgment to Anthropic, ruling training copies were fair use. But Judge rules no fair use in pirated copies of books used to build a central library. They are infringing.
OpenAI embarrassingly pulls Jony Ive video, io announcement due to trademark suit filed by IYO

The company IYO won a temporary restraining order against OpenAI regarding a video and public announcement of the acquisition of Jony Ive’s company io. Judge Trina Thompson granted the TRO on June 20. And soon after, OpenAI scrubbed the video of Ive and the announcement, both of which referred to “io,” Ive’s company. Here’s what…
Read more: OpenAI embarrassingly pulls Jony Ive video, io announcement due to trademark suit filed by IYO
Apple sued for securities fraud in failing to deliver on AI updates to Siri, iPhone

Eric Tucker has filed a proposed class action against Apple, Tim Cook, and other Apple executives for alleged securities violations in allegedly making false statements about the updates to Siri and the iPhone integrating AI, or what Apple calls Apple Intelligence. This is quite a twist. As the other Big Tech companies (Meta, Microsoft, and…
Read more: Apple sued for securities fraud in failing to deliver on AI updates to Siri, iPhone
Judge Stein grants oral argument for OpenAI’s objection to order to store user chat logs. Hearing on June 26.

Judge Stein granted the request of OpenAI to hold an oral argument on its motion to overrule the order of Magistrate Judge Wang to preserve all user chat logs, at least for the time being as she considered the New York Times’ argument that some relevant discovery may have been destroyed. The oral argument will…
Read more: Judge Stein grants oral argument for OpenAI’s objection to order to store user chat logs. Hearing on June 26.
A week after being sued by Disney, Midjourney launches video generator. Risky business?

As Disney and Universal anticipated in their Complaint against Midjourney, a new feature of video generation has just been launched by Midjourney. And the results are super impressive: but is this risky business for midjourney? One of Disney and Universal’s main gripes is that Midjourney allegedly failed to institute greater guardrails to prevent Midjourney from…
Read more: A week after being sued by Disney, Midjourney launches video generator. Risky business?
OpenAI adds more lawyers to MDL case, now totaling 55 attorneys. Is that enough?

OpenAI keeps adding attorneys to its defense in the MDL Litigation involving 13 lawsuits. Recent additions: With the recent additions, OpenAI has 55 lawyers in its defense team. Seems like an all lawyers on deck situation. But do you think it’s enough?
Read more: OpenAI adds more lawyers to MDL case, now totaling 55 attorneys. Is that enough?
Judge Stein denies reconsideration of Judge McMahon’s dismissal of Raw Story’s DMCA CMI claim

Due to the quirk of MDL Litigation, Judge Stein considered–and ultimately rejected–Raw Story Media’s motion to reconsider the dismissal of its DMCA CMI claim by Judge McMahon, who rendered the decision on lack of Article III standing right before all the cases against OpenAI were transferred to Judge Stein, sitting as an MDL court. This…
Read more: Judge Stein denies reconsideration of Judge McMahon’s dismissal of Raw Story’s DMCA CMI claim
Alcon Entertainment files Second Amended Complaint v. Tesla, Musk, Warner Bros.

After Judge Wu dismissed some of Alcon Entertainment’s claims, it filed a Second Amended Complaint to address the deficiencies. Apparently, the parties couldn’t reach a settlement! I haven’t been able to compare the 2 complaints closely, but this new one adds 32 pages to the complaint. DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT Related Stories
Read more: Alcon Entertainment files Second Amended Complaint v. Tesla, Musk, Warner Bros.
Chief Judge Saylor gets Justice v. Suno. Judge Garnett gets Justice v. Udio.

The initial assignments have been made. Chief Judge Saylor was assigned Justice v. Suno; he already presides over UMG Recordings v. Suno in Boston. Judge Garnett was assigned Justice v. Uncharted Labs dba Udio in the Southern District of New York. There’s another suit against Udio in the same district, UMG Recordings v. Uncharted Labs,…
Read more: Chief Judge Saylor gets Justice v. Suno. Judge Garnett gets Justice v. Udio.