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Are diary entries of Greg Brockman for OpenAI Elon Musk’s best evidence in case v. OpenAI?
Read more: Are diary entries of Greg Brockman for OpenAI Elon Musk’s best evidence in case v. OpenAI?OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman kept notes — what Elon Musk calls a diary — of Brockman’s thoughts regarding Elon Musk and his funding of OpenAI. Although Brockman’s diary is under seal, parts of them were quoted by Judge Gonzalez Rogers in her denial of OpenAI’s motion for summary judgment. From the Judge’s denial of OpenAI’s…
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OpenAI Letter to banks and investors: Elon Musk’s lawsuit case worth no more than $38 million, amount of Musk’s donation. Musk seeks up to $109.43 billion, plus punitive damages in Trial of the Century v. OpenAI.
Read more: OpenAI Letter to banks and investors: Elon Musk’s lawsuit case worth no more than $38 million, amount of Musk’s donation. Musk seeks up to $109.43 billion, plus punitive damages in Trial of the Century v. OpenAI.According to CNBC, OpenAI has told banks and investors that Elon Musk’s lawsuit v. OpenAI and Sam Altman has a risk exposure of only $38 million, the amount Musk donated to start OpenAI. But, in a recent filing on the remedies sought in the lawsuit, Musk is seeking upwards of $109.43 billion, plus punitive damages…
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The Trial of the Century: Elon Musk seeks disgorgement of $65.50B to $109.43B from OpenAI, $13.30B to $25.06B from Microsoft, plus punitive damages and injunctive relief. No amount (yet) specified v. Sam Altman and Greg Brockman personally. Unclear whether an injunction can stop OpenAI’s for-profit conversion.
Read more: The Trial of the Century: Elon Musk seeks disgorgement of $65.50B to $109.43B from OpenAI, $13.30B to $25.06B from Microsoft, plus punitive damages and injunctive relief. No amount (yet) specified v. Sam Altman and Greg Brockman personally. Unclear whether an injunction can stop OpenAI’s for-profit conversion.Elon Musk filed his notice of remedies sought from OpenAI and Microsoft in the upcoming April 2026 trial. Should he prevail in Elon Musk v. Sam Altman for alleged fraud in creating OpenAI in part with Musk’s money, Musk seeks an award of damages in the tens of billions. Based on Elon Musk’s economist expert…
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The Trial of the Century: Elon Musk v. Sam Altman starts Monday, April 27, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. with jury selection. And breakfast.
Read more: The Trial of the Century: Elon Musk v. Sam Altman starts Monday, April 27, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. with jury selection. And breakfast.After indicating at the hearing on January 8 that Elon Musk’s claims of fraud against Sam Altman in the founding of OpenAI must go to a jury due to sufficient factual issues, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers wasted no time in setting a trial date. The trial starts Monday, April 27, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. with…
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Bad news for NVIDIA: Judge Tigar allows Plaintiffs to add copyright infringement claims for alleged use of other Shadow Libraries, in training more LLMs of NVIDIA, and adding new claims of secondary liability
Read more: Bad news for NVIDIA: Judge Tigar allows Plaintiffs to add copyright infringement claims for alleged use of other Shadow Libraries, in training more LLMs of NVIDIA, and adding new claims of secondary liabilityNVIDIA suffered a major defeat in its defense in the Nazemian lawsuit. Judge Tigar just granted leave to plaintiffs to file a First Amended Complaint to add additional allegations and claims, and against more AI models trained by NVIDIA: (1) allegations identifying additional LLMs that NVIDIA developed using Plaintiffs’ copyrightedworks; (2) allegations that NVIDIA illegally…
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Elon Musk argues alleged use of still from Bladerunner 2049 was fair use as a matter of law
Read more: Elon Musk argues alleged use of still from Bladerunner 2049 was fair use as a matter of lawElon Musk and Tesla filed their reply in support of their motion to dismiss Alcon Entertainment’s copyright lawsuit related to an alleged use of a still shot from the movie Bladerunner 2049. Besides disputing infringement, Musk and Tesla argue fair use as a matter of law. Excerpt from Reply of Elon Musk and Tesla: DOWNLOAD…
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The shadowy allegations v. Google asserted by book authors, now publishers. Did Google use shadow libraries or not — when it has its own Google Books database?
Read more: The shadowy allegations v. Google asserted by book authors, now publishers. Did Google use shadow libraries or not — when it has its own Google Books database?As part of their motion to intervene, book publishers Cengage Learning and Hachette Book’s proposed complaint against Google alleges “Google first illegally copied Plaintiffs’ and the Class’s copyrighted books—downloading them from pirated sources and extracting them from behind legitimate paywalls—to amass a massive corpus of source material.” The nature of Google’s alleged downloading appears to…
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Cengage Learning, Inc., Hachette Book Group, Inc. ask to intervene in copyright suit v. Google.
Read more: Cengage Learning, Inc., Hachette Book Group, Inc. ask to intervene in copyright suit v. Google.Book publishers Cengage Learning, Inc. and Hachette Book Group, Inc. just filed a motion to intervene as plaintiffs in the existing lawsuit In re Google Generative AI, a case filed on July 11, 2023 that is now before Judge Eumi Lee. The book publishers are represented by lawyers from the law firms of Edelson PC…
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OpenAI, represented by SCOTUS litigator Lisa Blatt, seeks to stop string of discovery losses and stave off loss of attorney-client privilege. Oral argument on Friday, Jan. 16 is the most important one OpenAI has faced.
Read more: OpenAI, represented by SCOTUS litigator Lisa Blatt, seeks to stop string of discovery losses and stave off loss of attorney-client privilege. Oral argument on Friday, Jan. 16 is the most important one OpenAI has faced.The oral argument in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation tomorrow, Friday, Jan.16, 2026 at 02:00 PM in Courtroom 23A, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007 before Judge Sidney H. Stein, is the most important one OpenAI has faced in all the copyright lawsuits against it. At issue is OpenAI’s appeal of Magistrate Judge…