Month: September 2025

William Patry, treatise writer & Quinn Emanuel lawyer, joins defense of Udio music generator. Udio files answer.

The 51 copyright lawsuits against AI companies have no shortage of big-name lawyers involved. Now add to the mix William F. Patry, the renowned copyright treatise writer and counsel for Quinn Emanuel. Among copyright circles, Patry is probably the biggest name now involved. Interestingly, Quinn Emanuel also represents Reddit in their state law case against…
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Google DeepMind research paper on Generative Data Refinement to cleanse undesirable content

Google DeepMind posed a preprint paper on “Generative Data Refinement: Just Ask for Better Data.“ Abstract: For a fixed parameter size, the capabilities of large models are primarily determined by the quality and quantity of its training data. Consequently, training datasets now grow faster than the rate at which new data is indexed on the…
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Lovo moves to dismiss copyright claim on training allegedly with voice actors’ recording

Lovo filed a motion to dismiss the 6th claim for copyright infringement in AI training in the Second Amended Complaint. Lovo’s argument: Lehrman’s Copyright Claim
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Google files blistering response to Plaintiffs’ motion to amend scheduling order

In the In re Google Gen. AI Litigation, Google just filed a blistering response to the plaintiffs’ motion to amend the scheduling order yet again. All I know is that Judge Lee will not be happy with one side–or both sides. Related Stories
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Concord Music fact discovery closes in a month. Judge Van Keulen orders Concord Music to supplement disclosures re damages calcluation 7 days after discovery ends

Concord Music’s case against Anthropic is humming along. Fact discovery closes in a month. Magistrate Judge van Keulen just ordered Concord Music to supplement its disclosures re: damages calculations 7 days after discovery closes. But she warns Anthropic to avoid gamesmanship and use common sense.
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Judge Alsup picks apart Bartz’s proposed settlement process, listing now 33 questions for parties to address

Late Tuesday, Judge Alsup issued another order picking apart gaps and inconsistencies in the Bartz authors’ proposed settlement process. It just shows how meticulous Judge Alsup is in dissecting the proposed settlement process. Now, the total questions that the parties must address has ballooned to 33 questions. (See below for the first list.) To me…
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Google AI overviews draws criticism for drop in traffic and having to allow Google crawler to be part of traditional search

Google drew criticisms from media at WIRED’s AI Power Summit in New York on Monday September 15. Markham C. Erickson, VP of government affairs and public policy at Google, did a valiant effort defending their practice. The media companies complain that the AI Overviews decrease the traffic to their websites by extracting information so people don’t…
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Disney, Universal, Warner Brothers sue MiniMax for Hailuo Agent video generator

Well, the movie studios are now all-in the AI copyright lawsuit frenzy. After remaining on the sidelines until late 2024, the movie studios have now filed their 3rd lawsuit (2 are against Midjourney filed by Disney, Universal, and Warner Brothers). This time, they’ve collectively sued the Chinese company Minimax for its offering of an image…
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Sam Altman announces new safety measures to prevent teen suicides

Sam Altman posted a blog and tweet announcing new measures to guard against teen suicides with users of ChatGPT. Here’s the part specifically on the new measures: The third principle is about protecting teens. We prioritize safety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens; this is a new and powerful technology, and we believe minors…
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Paper on The Illusion of Diminishing Returns [of scaling]

Fascinating research paper refuting the notion that scaling of datasets has diminishing returns in the performance of large language models. While that might be true for simple “single-step” tasks, it is not for more complex “long horizon” tasks, according to the following researchers (Akshit Sinha, Arvindh Arun, Shashwat Goel, Steffen Staab, Jonas Geiping), who posted…
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