July 2025 – Page 3 – Chat GPT Is Eating the World

Kadrey, Meta disagree on how to proceed after Judge Chhabria’s partial summary judgment. Kadrey wants supplemental briefing on Meta’s alleged uploading of book copies. Meta wants partial final judgment.

In Kadrey v. Meta, the parties filed their statements on how they believe Judge Chhabria should proceed. There’s one outstanding item left in the case related to the alleged infringement by Meta in uploading copies of pirated books (leeching) during the process of torrenting them (including downloading) from shadow libraries. As Judge Chhabria ruled in…
Read more: Kadrey, Meta disagree on how to proceed after Judge Chhabria’s partial summary judgment. Kadrey wants supplemental briefing on Meta’s alleged uploading of book copies. Meta wants partial final judgment.
Ziff Davis filed 1st Amended Complaint v. OpenAI, in MDL case

On July 7, 2025, Ziff Davis filed a First Amended Complaint against OpenAI, now in the MDL case, In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation before Judge Stein. Ziff Davis is the media company that owns CNET, Mashable, ZDNet, IGN, PC Mag, MedPage Today, and a host of other online publications. It alleges copyright infringement in…
Read more: Ziff Davis filed 1st Amended Complaint v. OpenAI, in MDL case
Updated infographic on all AI copyright lawsuits in world (July 7, 2025)

We updated our Infographic on all AI Copyright Lawsuits in the world. DOWNLOAD THE PDF
Read more: Updated infographic on all AI copyright lawsuits in world (July 7, 2025)
Updated Master List of All US Copyright Lawsuits v. AI (July 7, 2025)

We updated our Master List of All U.S. Copyright Suits v. AI companies. We counted 47 lawsuits, 3 of which were voluntarily dismissed, leaving 44 pending lawsuits, 2 of which are already on appeal (Doe 1 v. Github in the Ninth Circuit and Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence in the Third Circuit.) We also added…
Read more: Updated Master List of All US Copyright Lawsuits v. AI (July 7, 2025)
Updated Map of AI Copyright Lawsuits (Jul. 7, 2025)

We updated the Map of Copyright Lawsuits v. AI companies. Our unofficial count is 47 lawsuits filed, of which 3 suits were voluntarily dismissed. 2 suits are on appeal: Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence in the 3rd Circuit and Doe 1 v. Github in the 9th Circuit. With a half year left, there’s a very…
Read more: Updated Map of AI Copyright Lawsuits (Jul. 7, 2025)
Which judge will decide fair use next in AI copyright litigation? Judge Eumi Lee, most likely

As the dust is still settling from the two fair use decisions by Judges Alsup and Chhabria in the last week of June, we can turn our attention to the next federal judge who will decide fair use in the AI copyright litigation. Looking at the schedules in the cases, it looks like Judge Eumi…
Read more: Which judge will decide fair use next in AI copyright litigation? Judge Eumi Lee, most likely
Sarah Andersen loses bid to get Midjourney’s datasets beyond LAION

Midjourney just got some good news. Magistrate Judge Cisneros denied Sarah Andersen’s motion to compel the production of datasets that Midjourney used beyond the datasets from the nonprofit LAION. Judge Cisneros ruled that the plaintiffs only alleged the use of the LAOIN datasets in their complaint. Their claims are solely based on LAOIN datasets.
Read more: Sarah Andersen loses bid to get Midjourney’s datasets beyond LAION
Denial v. OpenAI Complaint (PDF): Joseph Saveri Firm files another suit, raising total to 10 AI copyright suits

The complaint in Denial v. OpenAI alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft committed infringement by using the plaintiffs’ non-book textual works, downloaded from shadow libraries, including BookCorpus, LibGen1, LibGen2, or scraped from the Internet. Here are the 2 proposed classes: The claims against OpenAI and Microsoft: Excerpt from Complaint Allegations related to Direct Infringement DOWNLOAD THE…
Read more: Denial v. OpenAI Complaint (PDF): Joseph Saveri Firm files another suit, raising total to 10 AI copyright suits
Should Meta change its name to Superintelligence? Zuckerberg plays hardball in hiring AI researchers away from OpenAI with millions in bonuses

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly throwing millions of dollars in signing bonuses to lure the top AI researchers from OpenAI and other companies. Zuckerberg has formed a new Superintelligence Labs division within Meta, led by Alexandr Wang, formerly of Scale. The aggressive, scorched-earth strategy by Zuckerberg comes after a recent release of LlaMa that was a…
Read more: Should Meta change its name to Superintelligence? Zuckerberg plays hardball in hiring AI researchers away from OpenAI with millions in bonuses
AI Czar David Sacks praises report of Judge Alsup’s fair use decision. Does not mention pirated books ruling.

AI Czar David Sacks called Judge Alsup’s fair use decision in Bartz v. Anthropic a “positive ruling for AI.” The excepted portion of the Reuters news report that Sacks commented did not include Judge Alsup’s stern rebuke of Antrhopic’s use of pirated books, however. So, it’s unclear what Sacks’ view is with respect to that…
Read more: AI Czar David Sacks praises report of Judge Alsup’s fair use decision. Does not mention pirated books ruling.

Month: July 2025