Judge Lee shortened the time, at plaintiff’s request, for Google to respond to the plaintiffs’ motion to amend the case schedule to extend the deadlines.
The plaintiffs alleged, in its motion, that Google “(i) failed to provide timely and functional access to the training data remote environment that it selected and controls; (ii) failed to provide necessary to identify pirated and copyrighted material; (iii) unilaterally altered the contents of the training data in the environment without prior notice and in the midst of Plaintiffs’ experts’ confidential review; and (iv) failed to comply with the training data review protocol, by not timely making available to Plaintiffs’ experts the results of their analyses and raising new technical limitations to the takeout process.
“Taken together, these complications have locked Plaintiffs experts out of the training set, preventing them from analyzing the data, for approximately 200 hours. Compounding the locked-out problem, the changes to the dataset requires Plaintiffs’ experts to re-do work the work they have been engaged in for the past two months. Plaintiffs’ experts estimate that they need six weeks to complete their analysis. In this context, Plaintiffs’ request is extremely aggressive, and assumes there will be no more lockouts or withheld data.”
Judge Lee gave Google until tomorrow, Sept. 16 to file its response. “Plaintiffs shall not file a reply brief. After briefing concludes, the Court will determine whether to set a hearing.”
We will see how Judge Lee rules. Can’t be happy.