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List of Cases in which Authors adopt the Shadow Library Strategy v. AI companies.
Read more: List of Cases in which Authors adopt the Shadow Library Strategy v. AI companies.UPDATED on Nov. 7, 2025: We posted an updated graphic compiling all the U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies in which the authors are advancing the Shadow Library Strategy against the AI companies. The Shadow Library Strategy is to raise a separate theory of infringement–apart from the training of AI models–based on the AI company’s…
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Updated Map of US copyright suits v. AI (Oct. 24, 2025) 56 suits
Read more: Updated Map of US copyright suits v. AI (Oct. 24, 2025) 56 suitsWe updated the US Map of All Copyright Suits = 56 copyright suits. New suits: (1) Alexander v. Apple, and (2) Reddit v. SerpAPI, Perplexity AI. These 56 U.S. copyright lawsuits now cover most of the major AI companies in the United States, making it somewhat akin to mass toxic tort litigation. The only notable…
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Apple sued in 3rd copyright suit for alleged used of pirated books. Perplexity sued for 3rd copyright suit. Total US cases v. AI= 56
Read more: Apple sued in 3rd copyright suit for alleged used of pirated books. Perplexity sued for 3rd copyright suit. Total US cases v. AI= 56The copyright cases against AI companies are now coming at a steady pace. We’ve now hit 56 copyright lawsuits against AI companies in the United States—and a total of 82 worldwide. Another book author, Tasha Alexander (aka Anastasia Grant), the author of the Lady Emily Ashton book series, filed the 3rd copyright suit against Apple…
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Disney v. Midjourney file Joint Rule 26(f) report but disagree on scheduling order
Read more: Disney v. Midjourney file Joint Rule 26(f) report but disagree on scheduling orderDisney v. Midjourney parties filed their Joint Rule 26(f) report. They couldn’t agree on a proposed scheduling order so offered competing dates with a difference of about 3 months.
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2 book author suits v. Apple are related. Judge Gonzalez Rogers presides.
Read more: 2 book author suits v. Apple are related. Judge Gonzalez Rogers presides.Judge Gonzalez Rogers deemed the recently filed Martinez-Conde v. Apple suit related to the earlier filed book author suit Hendrix v. Apple. As related cases, both will be assigned to Judge Gonzalez Rogers.
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Nazemian seeks to amend complaint v. NVIDIA to add use of more shadow libraries & pirated books
Read more: Nazemian seeks to amend complaint v. NVIDIA to add use of more shadow libraries & pirated booksThe ripple effect from Judge Alsup’s ruling on summary judgment in Bartz v. Anthropic continues. Yet another plaintiff is copying what I call the Shadow Library Strategy and attempting to add a separate claim of copyright infringement based on the allegation that the defendant AI company downloaded and used additional shadow libraries containing pirated books.…
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Anthropic raises 20 affirmative defenses, including fair use, innocent infringement, copyright misuse, and due process violation for damages
Read more: Anthropic raises 20 affirmative defenses, including fair use, innocent infringement, copyright misuse, and due process violation for damagesNow that Judge Lee rejected Concord Music’s belated motion to amend the complaint (to include use of shadow libraries), Anthropic has filed its answer to the already filed first amended complaint. Anthropic includes most of the same defenses it raised in the Bartz case, including fair use and innocent infringement. But it has added 6…
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Tammy Carvey credits ChatGPT for picking 4 of 5 numbers for Powerball lottery. Won $100,000.
Read more: Tammy Carvey credits ChatGPT for picking 4 of 5 numbers for Powerball lottery. Won $100,000.Well, here’s when you know that ChatGPT is truly eating the world. Tammy Carver won $100,000 in the Powerball lottery. She credits ChatGPT for picking 4 of the 5 numbers correctly, along with the Powerball number. She boosted her ticket so earned $100,000! I asked ChatGPT to compute the probability of this happening. ChatGPT said:…
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Judge Lee allows provisional sealing of exhibits for class certification in Google Gen AI Litigation
Read more: Judge Lee allows provisional sealing of exhibits for class certification in Google Gen AI LitigationJudge Lee has granted the parties stipulated proposal to allow the filing of exhibits and briefs provisionally under seal (without individual motions) related to the motion for class certification. Then the parties will file an omnibus motion later to seal. Plaintiffs filed their redacted motion to certify a class action on October 15. Google’s Responses…
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DeepSeek new paper: model uses images of text for vision tokens instead of text tokens. Optical compression might cut costs, computation needed
Read more: DeepSeek new paper: model uses images of text for vision tokens instead of text tokens. Optical compression might cut costs, computation neededDeepSeek, based in China, is innovating again. In a fascinating paper posted on Github, Deepseek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression, DeepSeek uses a new method of “compressing long contexts via optical 2D mapping.” Instead of text tokens, the model will use image or vision tokens of the text. Basically, like taking a screenshot of a page of…