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Cohere loses its partial motion to dismiss Advance Local Media’s direct copyright infringement claim
Read more: Cohere loses its partial motion to dismiss Advance Local Media’s direct copyright infringement claimJudge McMahon, in the Southern District of New York, denied AI company Cohere’s partial motion to dismiss direct and secondary copyright infringement claims and Lanham Act claims. This is an important case challenging, among other things, outputs from Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). The opinion also discusses the relevance (or not) of plaintiffs’ investigatory tactics to…
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Judge Alsup blasts ClaimsHero attempt to “trick” class authors to opt out in “a fraud of immense proportions.” Warns of case referral to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Read more: Judge Alsup blasts ClaimsHero attempt to “trick” class authors to opt out in “a fraud of immense proportions.” Warns of case referral to the U.S. Attorney’s office.Things went horribly for Devin “Velvel” Freedman, counsel for ClaimsHero at today’s hearing. As we predicted before the hearing, things woulldn’t–and didn’t–end well for ClaimsHero. From the start of ClaimsHero’s argument, Judge Alsup excoriated Freedman, a lawyer from Freedman Normand Friedland LLP, for ClaimsHero’s “misleading” interference with the claims and opt out process approved by…
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Bartz Class Counsel asks for leave to file reply to ClaimsHero. Proposed reply blasts ClaimsHero’s brief.
Read more: Bartz Class Counsel asks for leave to file reply to ClaimsHero. Proposed reply blasts ClaimsHero’s brief.Things are getting heated in the Bartz v. Anthropic case. Less than 24 hours after third-party law firm ClaimsHero filed a full-throated First Amendment defense of its marketing, social media, and website overtures to Bartz class members to opt out, the Bartz Class Counsel filed motion for leave to file a reply. Bartz Class Counsel…
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ClaimsHero offers vigorous defense of its overtures to Bartz class members. Disputes Bartz Class Counsel’s allegations.
Read more: ClaimsHero offers vigorous defense of its overtures to Bartz class members. Disputes Bartz Class Counsel’s allegations.ClaimsHero, an Arizona law firm that specializes in aggregating claims for class actions, gave a full-throated defense of its overtures to Bartz class members who potentially choose to opt out of the class recovery and pursue their own claims against Anthropic separately. When the Bartz Class Counsel had contacted ClaimsHero about Class Counsel’s concerns with…
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OpenAI, represented by Lisa Blatt, files appellee brief in Raw Story Media appeal of DMCA CMI claim dismissal
Read more: OpenAI, represented by Lisa Blatt, files appellee brief in Raw Story Media appeal of DMCA CMI claim dismissalOpenAI, represented by Supreme Court litigator, filed its brief of appellee in the appeal filed by Raw Story Media. Judge McMahon dismissed Raw Story Media’s DMCA CMI removal claim for lack of Article III standing. EXCERPTS from OPENAI’s BRIEF DOWNLOAD OPENAI’S BRIEF OF APPELLEE
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Anthropic agrees with Bartz’s motion to limit ClaimsHero’s overtures to class members. Anthropic also suggests ClaimsHero is using Anthropic’s trademarks in way likely to cause confusion.
Read more: Anthropic agrees with Bartz’s motion to limit ClaimsHero’s overtures to class members. Anthropic also suggests ClaimsHero is using Anthropic’s trademarks in way likely to cause confusion.As invited by Judge Alsup, Anthropic has officially weighed in on the controversy brewing over a third-party firm named ClaimsHero’s overtures to Bartz class members. For more about this controversy, visit here: Anthropic agrees with Bartz book authors that the court should issue an order limiting ClaimsHero’s overtures to class members (apparently seeking to represent…
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German court: OpenAI committed copyright infringement in AI memorization and output of song lyrics. 1st copyright decision v. OpenAI. More to follow?
Read more: German court: OpenAI committed copyright infringement in AI memorization and output of song lyrics. 1st copyright decision v. OpenAI. More to follow?GEMA, the collecting society, prevailed in its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI in Germany. According to Reuters, which first reported the decision, “both the memorisation in the language models and the reproduction of the song lyrics in the chatbot’s outputs constitute infringements of copyright exploitation rights.” “Presiding judge Elke Schwager ordered OpenAI to pay damages for…
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Parties in Mosaic LLM case dispute over 5 additional depositions
Read more: Parties in Mosaic LLM case dispute over 5 additional depositionsPlaintiffs in the Mosaic LLM case want 5 extra depositions on top of the presumptive 10 per side. The defendants oppose it.