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Judge Tigar amends scheduling order in Nazemian v. NVIDIA
Read more: Judge Tigar amends scheduling order in Nazemian v. NVIDIAJudge Tigar has granted the Nazemian plaintiffs’ motion to amend the scheduling order, extending most of the deadlines another month. Replies to summary judgment motions won’t be due until Dec. 4, 2026. This does not really affect the order of judges who will have the next chance to decide fair use in AI training, which…
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Updated Map of US copyright suits v. AI (Oct. 16, 2025) 53 lawsuits.
Read more: Updated Map of US copyright suits v. AI (Oct. 16, 2025) 53 lawsuits.Here’s the latest U.S. map of all copyright suits against AI companies. Since the last map, we added 2 new lawsuits: (1) Martinez-Conde v. Apple and (2) Tanzer v. Salesforce. Both involve book authors who sued the respective companies for allegedly using pirated books datasets to train their models. The total of copyright suits against…
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As Benioff faces backlash in SF, Salesforce hit with copyright suit for AI training allegedly on pirated books. Suits hit 53 in US.
Read more: As Benioff faces backlash in SF, Salesforce hit with copyright suit for AI training allegedly on pirated books. Suits hit 53 in US.Marc Benioff sparked backlash this past week for his comments in favor of bringing in the National Guard to San Francisco. Benioff later did damage control on Twitter. But it might be too little too late. To make matters worse, yesterday, book authors E. Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore, represented by the Joseph Saveri Law…
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NVIDIA opposes Nazemian’s motion to amend scheduling order
Read more: NVIDIA opposes Nazemian’s motion to amend scheduling orderNVIDIA filed its opposition to the plaintiff Nazemian’s motion to amend the scheduling order for more time. DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF OF NVIDIA
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Plaintiffs file redacted motion to certify class v. Google
Read more: Plaintiffs file redacted motion to certify class v. GoogleThe plaintiffs filed their motion to certify a class against Google. It is heavily redacted. This is the 2d motion to certify a class action among the 52 copyright lawsuits filed against AI companies. The 1st was Bartz v. Anthropic, in which Judge Alsup ultimately certified a class of book authors whose works were in…
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Martinez-Conde seeks related case status with Hendrix v. Apple
Read more: Martinez-Conde seeks related case status with Hendrix v. Apple“Plaintiffs Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik, in Martinez-Conde et al., v. Apple Inc., (N.D. Cal.) (the “Martinez-Conde Action”), submit this administrative motion to consider whether the Martinez-Conde Action should be related to this first-filed, lowest-numbered case, Hendrix et al. v. Apple Inc., No. 4:25-cv-07558-YGR (N.D. Cal.) (the “Hendrix Action”), filed in this district on…
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Stability AI moves to dismiss Getty Images’ complaint
Read more: Stability AI moves to dismiss Getty Images’ complaintStability AI moved to dismiss the complaint of Getty Images, in a case now in the Northern District of California. Excerpts from Stability AI’s brief: DOWNLOAD THE MOTION TO DISMISS OF STABILITY AI
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Judge Kronstadt issues order in Warner Brothers v. Midjourney
Read more: Judge Kronstadt issues order in Warner Brothers v. MidjourneyJudge Kronstadt issued an order in anticipation of the scheduling conference: “ORDER SETTING RULE 16(b)/26(f) SCHEDULING CONFERENCE by Judge John A. Kronstadt. Counsel shall file a Joint Report consistent with this Order. A hearing is not necessary and, therefore, the matter is taken under submission. Upon review of the Joint Report, a scheduling order will…
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Perplexity AI changes counsel in Dow Jones case to Quinn Emanuel lawyers
Read more: Perplexity AI changes counsel in Dow Jones case to Quinn Emanuel lawyersPerplexity has switched law firms and lawyers who represent it in the case filed by Dow Jones. Judge Polk Failla approved the change: Perplexity AI, Inc. substitutes Andrew Schapiro of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP as counsel of record in place of Cameron Gibbs, James Day, Eugene Mar. and Michelle Kao of Farella Braun+…
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Uncharted Labs files to dismiss “stream ripping” DMCA anti-circumvention claim
Read more: Uncharted Labs files to dismiss “stream ripping” DMCA anti-circumvention claimUncharted Labs d/b/a Udio filed a motion to dismiss UMG Recordings’ Count 3 for alleged violations of the DMCA anti-circumvention provision. Similar to Suno in the Concord Music case, Udio argues that UMG’s “stream ripping” claim fails to state a claim because it misunderstands the DMCA anti-circumvention provision: “While section 1201 prohibits the act of…