At yesterday’s discovery hearing, as reported by Annelise Levy of Bloomberg Law, Judge Alsup ruled largely in favor of the plaintiff Bartz book authors:
- Anthropic must produce its executives’ financial information, including salary and equity under seal and 1 week before trial, set for Dec. 1, 2025.
- Anthropic must produce Board Meeting minutes in which pirated books from shadow libraries was discussed.
- The parties worked out an agreement on Anthropic’s discovery of the calculations plaintiffs plan to make on damages, as well as some information related to copyright ownership.
Judge Alsup referred the plaintiffs and a lawyer from OpenAI to Judge Stein in the MDL Litigation to request the production of OpenAI documents and testimony for this litigation. Judge Alsup said he recommended the court in New York should allow it.
Judge Alsup also allowed the plaintiffs to modify the inspection protocol so they can access Anthropic’s datasets with external devices not confined to Anthropic’s premises, so that they can prepare the all important list of works that satisfy the parameters of the class of works as the court defined it.
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