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With statutory damages, the Shadow Library Strategy offers the same potential amount of recovery to book authors. Winning on AI training adds $0.
Read more: With statutory damages, the Shadow Library Strategy offers the same potential amount of recovery to book authors. Winning on AI training adds $0.This post is a follow up to yesterday’s analysis of the Susman Godfrey Playbook in lawsuits against AI companies. To recap, one of the strategies that Susman Godfrey lawyers successfully advanced in Bartz v. Anthropic is the separate treatment of Anthropic’s initial acquisition and library-building of copies from shadow libraries. What I call the Shadow…
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Parties’ briefs on DMCA CMI claim in 9th Circuit in Doe 1 v. Github
Read more: Parties’ briefs on DMCA CMI claim in 9th Circuit in Doe 1 v. GithubIt looks like the oral argument in the 9th Circuit for the interlocutory appeal in Doe 1 v. Github will be scheduled for December 2025 or January 2026 in San Francisco. Below are the parties’ briefs (amicus briefs not included here). Doe 1’s Appellant Brief OpenAI’s Appellee Brief Microsoft’s Appellee Brief Doe 1’s Reply Brief
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OpenAI enlists Lisa Blatt for appeal in Doe 1 v. Github
Read more: OpenAI enlists Lisa Blatt for appeal in Doe 1 v. GithubThe 9th Circuit plans on scheduling the oral argument in the interlocutory appeal in Doe 1 v. Github for December 2025 or January 2026. OpenAI has hired Lisa S. Blatt of William & Connolly presumably to do the oral argument on their side. Blatt successfully argued Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith on behalf of Goldsmith.…
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Judge Lee grants plaintiffs’ motion to shorten time for Google’s response to Motion to amend case schedule to allow more time.
Read more: Judge Lee grants plaintiffs’ motion to shorten time for Google’s response to Motion to amend case schedule to allow more time.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…
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is a custodian for document discovery in Nazemian copyright suit
Read more: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is a custodian for document discovery in Nazemian copyright suitWell, things are starting to get interesting in the Nazemian lawsuit against NVIDIA. Magistrate Judge Sallie Han just ruled that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is a custodian for the purposes of document discovery from NVIDIA. Will be quite interesting what information related to training and copyright turn up.
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UMG Recordings v. Suno file joint motion to amend scheduling order. Also allow UMG to add DMCA CMI claim.
Read more: UMG Recordings v. Suno file joint motion to amend scheduling order. Also allow UMG to add DMCA CMI claim.It looks like the schedules are moving later in ways that will delay the next chance for any federal district court to rule on fair use in AI training. The parties in the UMG Recordings v. Anthropic case have just filed a joint motion allowing a change to the scheduling order in part to accommodate…
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The Susman Godfrey Playbook in Lawsuits v. AI
Read more: The Susman Godfrey Playbook in Lawsuits v. AINo law firm has had a greater impact among the 50 U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies than Susman Godfrey. Among lawyers, the firm needs no introduction. In fiscal 2023, it ranked No. 4 among law firms for profits per partner, with a hefty $7 million per partner. While the Joseph Saveri Law Firm started…
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Penske Media v. Google COMPLAINT. Rolling Stone owner sues Google for AI Mode. Antitrust claim
Read more: Penske Media v. Google COMPLAINT. Rolling Stone owner sues Google for AI Mode. Antitrust claimGoogle just got hit with an antitrust lawsuit filed by Penske Media, owner of Rolling Stone and other media publications. The suit alleges: “But in recent years, Google has begun to tie its participation in this bargain to another transaction to which PMC and other publishers do not willingly consent. As a condition of indexing…
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Judge Wu grants Tesla, Warner Brothers’ motion to dismiss Alcon Entertainment’s 2d am. complaint with leave to amend.
Read more: Judge Wu grants Tesla, Warner Brothers’ motion to dismiss Alcon Entertainment’s 2d am. complaint with leave to amend.Judge Wu granted Elon Musk’s, Tesla’s and Warner Brothers’ motion to dismiss the Complaint of Alcon Entertainment with leave to amend. Presumably the claims that are allowed are the ones indicated by Judge Wu’s tentative ruling.