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Judge Blumenfeld orders Disney to show cause why its case v. Minimax should not be dismissed for lack of prosecution. Whoa.
Read more: Judge Blumenfeld orders Disney to show cause why its case v. Minimax should not be dismissed for lack of prosecution. Whoa.ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE LACK OF PROSECUTION by Judge Stanley Blumenfeld, Jr.: More than 90 days have passed, and Plaintiffs have not filed proof of service. Plaintiffs are ordered to show cause, in writing, no later than 12/29/2025, why this action should not be dismissed for lack of prosecution. Failure to timely respond to…
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ROSS Intelligence files Reply in appeal of Thomson Reuters’ copyright suit in Third Circuit
Read more: ROSS Intelligence files Reply in appeal of Thomson Reuters’ copyright suit in Third CircuitA lot happening right before the holidays. ROSS Intelligence just filed its Reply in support of its interlocutory appeal of Judge Bibas’s grant of summary judgment on: (1) copyrightability of Westlaw headnotes and (2) no fair use in AI training by ROSS using some Westlaw headnotes in legal memos. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD ROSS’S REPLY FOR ALL…
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John Carreyrou, book authors file copyright suit v. entire AI industry: Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI (of Elon Musk), and Perplexity. Copyright suits hit 70. (Could have been 75.)
Read more: John Carreyrou, book authors file copyright suit v. entire AI industry: Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI (of Elon Musk), and Perplexity. Copyright suits hit 70. (Could have been 75.)John Carreyrou and 5 other book authors (Lisa Barretta, Philip Shishkin, Jane Adams, Matthew Sacks, and Michael Kochin) ho opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic with the encouragement of ClaimsHero, an Arizona-based law firm that has specialized in claims aggregation, have filed today a copyright lawsuit against nearly the entire U.S. AI industry: The…
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Magistrate Judge van Keulen denies Plaintiffs’ motion to “produce evidence sufficient to identify” Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works beyond the datasets already produced
Read more: Magistrate Judge van Keulen denies Plaintiffs’ motion to “produce evidence sufficient to identify” Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works beyond the datasets already producedIn In re Google Generative AI Litigation, Magistrate Judge van Keulen denied the Plaintiffs’ motion to compel Google to “produce evidence sufficient to identify, or simply identify: (1) all Named Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works in the datasets … used by Google to train the Models, and (2) all class member copyrighted works used for that purpose.”…
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Runway seeks discovery from Sarah Andersen, Jingna Zhang from Google GenAI case
Read more: Runway seeks discovery from Sarah Andersen, Jingna Zhang from Google GenAI caseIn Andersen v. Stability AI, Runway is asking Magistrate Judge Cisneros to order Plaintiffs Sarah Andersen and Jingna Zhang to produce discovery from another lawsuit in which they are involved, In re Google Generative AI Litigation. DOWNLOAD THE DISCOVERY LETTER
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Elon Musk, Tesla assert fair use defense for alleged use of Blade Runner 2049 still
Read more: Elon Musk, Tesla assert fair use defense for alleged use of Blade Runner 2049 stillThings just got a bit more interesting in the Alcon Entertainment v. Tesla case. For the background to this copyright lawsuit, see our prior post: After 2 rounds of motions to dismiss and a Third Amended Complaint, Tesla and Elon Musk filed another motion to dismiss. As you can see from the Table of Contents,…
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Magistrate Judge van Keulen issues order re: expert reports in Concord Music v. Anthropic
Read more: Magistrate Judge van Keulen issues order re: expert reports in Concord Music v. AnthropicThe Concord Music v. Anthropic is marching along. Magistrate Judge van Keulen just issued the order governing expert reports. All eyes will be on this case as it most likely will present the next opportunity for a judge to rule on fair use in AI training. Judge Lee presides.
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Plaintiffs oppose OpenAI’s objection re: production of 20 million ChatGPT logs
Read more: Plaintiffs oppose OpenAI’s objection re: production of 20 million ChatGPT logsOpenAI filed its Rule 72(a) objection to Magistrate Judge Wang’s order requiring it to produce 20 million ChatGPT logs by users (“de-identified”). Now the Class Plaintiffs and the News Plaintiffs have filed their oppositions. DOWNLOAD CLASS PLAINTIFFS’ OPPOSITION DOWNLOAD NEWS PLAINTIFFS’ OPPOSITION
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With fact discovery ending Feb. 27, 2026, OpenAI seeks stay of Ziff Davis lawsuit due to alleged delay
Read more: With fact discovery ending Feb. 27, 2026, OpenAI seeks stay of Ziff Davis lawsuit due to alleged delayOpenAI is seeking a stay of the Ziff Davis lawsuit in the MDL Litigation. OpenAI alleges that Ziff Davis has fallen behind in discovery compared to the rest of the litigants. With fact discovery to close on Feb. 27, 2026, OpenAI thinks a stay is warranted. Excerpt from OpenAI’s brief: DOWNLOAD OPENAI’S MOTION TO STAY…