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Month: November 2025

Google aggressively seeks sanctions v. Plaintiffs in AI lawsuit for allegedly shifting alleged class involved again

Google is seeking sanctions against the plaintiffs in the In re Google Generative AI Litigation. Google alleges that the plaintiffs are now belatedly changing their definitions of the class for the potential class action lawsuit, after already once having Judge Lee strike their “fail-safe” class definition. Google says it will seek to strike the class…
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Mistral co-founder Guillaume Lample ensnared in controversy over Meta’s torrenting from shadow libraries, including Library Genesis

Another bombshell just dropped in Kadrey v. Meta. The unredacted brief and exhibits of Kadrey’s motion for leave to take additional discovery from Meta implicates Guillaume Lample, then-Meta employee (and later the co-founder and chief scientist of Mistral, an AI company). Kadrey argues: One area for additional discovery Judge Chhabria granted is a search of…
Read more: Mistral co-founder Guillaume Lample ensnared in controversy over Meta’s torrenting from shadow libraries, including Library Genesis
Bartz Class Settlement website goes dark temporarily, by court order due to steering away from opt outs

The Bartz Class Counsel has temporarily taken down the class settlement website to comply with Judge Alsup’s late evening order. They have until Tuesday, Nov. 25, 7:30 AM to fix the website and forms to comply with Judge Alsup’s order. For more on the Judge’s order, visit: Obviously, this is a major setback for the…
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Judge Alsup finds major flaws with Bartz Class Website, “steered away from opting out” with no button to opt out. Court orders class website IMMEDIATELY disabled until fixes made.

Late Thursday night, Judge Alsup issued his third order on the Bartz class notice. The order is the most scathing critique of the Bartz class’s process for class members. Judge Alsup found that (1) the class website lacks a button for class members to opt out while presenting a button to file a claim for…
Read more: Judge Alsup finds major flaws with Bartz Class Website, “steered away from opting out” with no button to opt out. Court orders class website IMMEDIATELY disabled until fixes made.
Meta tells Judge Chhabria it may have found more torrenting from shadow library in Oct. 2022: Libgen-SciTech dataset

Torrenting from shadow libraries is turning into a hydra for Meta. Just when Meta thinks it has found all the relevant communications, another one pops ups. Judge Chhabria recently granted Kadrey plaintiffs additional discovery related to their distribution infringement claim. And now Meta’s outside lawyer has apparently found one additional Meta employee who may have…
Read more: Meta tells Judge Chhabria it may have found more torrenting from shadow library in Oct. 2022: Libgen-SciTech dataset
Warner Music and Udio reach settlement, following similar one by UMG Recordings. Sony Music left in lawsuit.

Warner Music and Udio (Uncharted Labs) announced a settlement of their case and partnership to build a new AI music platform. This follows a similar settlement between UMG Recordings and Udio. That leaves Sony Music left in the case, with a possible settlement highly likely. Press Release by Warner Music: Warner Music Group And Udio…
Read more: Warner Music and Udio reach settlement, following similar one by UMG Recordings. Sony Music left in lawsuit.
Thomson Reuters files its appellee brief in ROSS Intelligence case 2 days before deadline (albeit after an extension)

Exciting news: Thomson Reuters filed its Brief of Appellees today, 2 days before the (extended) deadline on Nov. 21. This is the interlocutory appeal in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence before the Third Circuit. I don’t recall ever seeing a brief filed early. But this one does come following a 30 day extension. Excerpts from…
Read more: Thomson Reuters files its appellee brief in ROSS Intelligence case 2 days before deadline (albeit after an extension)
Judge Alsup continues to home in on making sure class members understand their right to opt out of the settlement

Judge Alsup issued a further order on Class Counsel’s status report on changes to the class notice. One of the biggest concern’s of Judge Alsup that he recently flagged is that 18,000 class members already elected to receive the class distribution of $3,100 per work before the direct class notice has been sent to class…
Read more: Judge Alsup continues to home in on making sure class members understand their right to opt out of the settlement
Entrepreneur Media v. Meta seeks to be “related case” to Kadrey v. Meta. Will it become Kadrey II before Judge Chhabria, resuscitating copyright dilution theory?

Entrepreneur Media is asking Judge Chhabria to deem its recently filed lawsuit Entrepreneur Media v. Meta a related case to Kadrey v. Meta under local rules. If it is, then it would be assigned to Judge Chhabria. Currently, the case is assigned to Judge Labson Freeman. The Local Rule for the Northern District of California…
Read more: Entrepreneur Media v. Meta seeks to be “related case” to Kadrey v. Meta. Will it become Kadrey II before Judge Chhabria, resuscitating copyright dilution theory?
Class Counsel informs Judge Alsup of circulation of court’s preservation order re opt outs and claims

The Bartz book authors’ Class Counsel informed Judge Alsup of circulating his preservation order related to their communication to class members about opt outs and claims. This means they circulated the Judge’s order to: Obviously, the Bartz Class Counsel are showing urgency with the court’s order. As I mentioned in my prior post (see below),…
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