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OpenAI hit with another newspaper copyright lawsuit. Newspapers want over $10 billion from OpenAI. Total = 61 copyright suits v. AI cos.
Read more: OpenAI hit with another newspaper copyright lawsuit. Newspapers want over $10 billion from OpenAI. Total = 61 copyright suits v. AI cos.The week continues to get worse for OpenAI and Microsoft. After losing its attorney-client privilege regarding its deletion of Books1 and 2 datasets in 2022, OpenAI, along with Microsoft, was hit with another copyright lawsuit. This follows a report of an internal OpenAI memo in which Sam Altman warned employees of “economic headwinds” and “rough…
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Is Magistrate Judge’s decision on OpenAI’s waiver of attorney-client privilege due to willfulness of civil infringment but no waiver on criminal infringement contradictory?
Read more: Is Magistrate Judge’s decision on OpenAI’s waiver of attorney-client privilege due to willfulness of civil infringment but no waiver on criminal infringement contradictory?One of the biggest issues that has arisen in the copyright litigation against OpenAI is whether OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege as to communications in-house OpenAI lawyers made regarding the deletion of Books1 and Books2 datasets in mid-2022 after OpenAI torrented them in 2018 and then used them to train an earlier AI model(s) of…
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OpenAI asks Magistrate Judge Wang to stay controversial ruling on waiver of attorney-client privilege as it appeals to Judge Stein
Read more: OpenAI asks Magistrate Judge Wang to stay controversial ruling on waiver of attorney-client privilege as it appeals to Judge SteinOpenAI has asked Magistrate Judge Wang to stay her controversial decision holding that OpenAI has waived its attorney client privilege related to communications on “non-use” and “reasons” for deleting Books1 and Books2 before any copyright litigation started. OpenAI will appeal the decision to Judge Stein.
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Suno and Warner Music announce settlement and partnership. AI generated music is here to stay.
Read more: Suno and Warner Music announce settlement and partnership. AI generated music is here to stay.Warner Music just announced a settlement of its lawsuit against Suno (leaving UMG Recordings and Sony Music in the Suno lawsuit). The settlement and business deal sound similar to the ones Udio struck with Warner Music and UMG Recordings (see Related Stories below). WARNER MUSIC GROUP AND SUNO FORGE GROUNDBREAKING PARTNERSHIP Companies will collaborate on…
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Mosaic, Databricks oppose extension of scheduling order
Read more: Mosaic, Databricks oppose extension of scheduling orderMosaic LLM and Databricks oppose the book author plaintiffs’ motion to amend the scheduling order. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD MOSAIC’S OPPOSITION
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Judge Chhabria deems Entrepreneur Media v. Meta a related case to Kadrey v. Meta. Will it become Kadrey II?
Read more: Judge Chhabria deems Entrepreneur Media v. Meta a related case to Kadrey v. Meta. Will it become Kadrey II?Judge Chhabria deemed the newly filed Entrepreneur Media v. Meta a related case to Kadrey v. Meta. That means Entrepreneur Media will be reassigned to Judge Chhabria from Judge Labson Freeman. It also gives Entrepreneur Media a chance to resuscitate the controversial new theory of copyright market dilution that Judge Chhabria had embraced in dicta…
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After OpenAI loses attorney-client privilege re: Books1, 2 datasets, ChatGPT says OpenAI’s position “is significantly weaker” and in “real danger” of liability.
Read more: After OpenAI loses attorney-client privilege re: Books1, 2 datasets, ChatGPT says OpenAI’s position “is significantly weaker” and in “real danger” of liability.The string of losses OpenAI has suffered recently in the MDL litigation should give OpenAI pause. For a brief summary of some of these losses: What does ChatGPT think now of OpenAI’s chances in the litigation? At least at the moment, it’s hard for OpenAI to be optimistic about the MDL litigation. There are a…
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Anthropic seeks clarification and order requiring Matthew Oppenheim to declare “no one at O+Z or at the Publishers who have had access to Protected Material [of Anthropic] under the Protective Order has used Protected Material to investigate future claims”
Read more: Anthropic seeks clarification and order requiring Matthew Oppenheim to declare “no one at O+Z or at the Publishers who have had access to Protected Material [of Anthropic] under the Protective Order has used Protected Material to investigate future claims”Anthropic is seeking clarification from Magistrate Judge van Keulen on the scope of the protective order. Specifically, “Anthropic seeks an order confirming that the Protective Order in this case, ECF 293, prohibits a receiving party’s use of Protected Material produced in this litigation for any purpose outside of the above captioned litigation, including to investigate,…
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Suno moves to dismiss Woulard’s complaint
Read more: Suno moves to dismiss Woulard’s complaintSuno has moved to dismiss Woulard’s complaint filed in the Northern District of Illinois for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue, or, in the alternative, to transfer venue. DOWNLOAD SUNO’S MOTION