Some of the recent AI copyright lawsuits have been assigned. They are listed below.
1. Judge Rita F. Lin was assigned Concord Music Group v. Anthropic II. But there’s a pending motion for Judge Eumi Lee to consider relating the case to Concord Music v. Anthropic I. If Judge Lee does so, the second case will be reassigned to her. Judge Lin was also assigned James v. Together Computer.
2. Judge James Donato was assigned Youngblood v. Meta. He also presided over the Millette v. OpenAI case before it was transferred to the MDL court.
3. Judge Eumi Lee was assigned Kleiner v. Adobe. She presides over Concord Music v. Anthropic I, In re Google Generative AI Litigation, and Strike 3 Holdings v. Meta.
4. Judge Andre Birotte Jr. was assigned Ted Entertainment v. Snap. This is his first AI copyright case.
5. Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin was assigned James v. Cerebras Systems. She presides over Bartz v. Anthropic and, before the transfer to MDL court, In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation.
6. Judge Trina L. Thompson was assigned Carreyrou v. Anthropic, a case filed by authors who opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement. Judge Thompson presides over Getty Images v. Stability AI.
7. Judge Jon S. Tigar was assigned Ted Entertainment v. Meta Platforms. He presided over Doe 1 v. Github and presides over Nazemian v. NVIDIA.
8. Judge Jacquelyn Scott Corley was assigned Ted Entertainment v. Bytedance and Lyon v. Adobe.
9. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers was assigned Google v. SerpApi. She presides over Hendrix v. Apple consolidated cases, as well as Elon Musk v. Sam Altman.
The Northern District of California is busy. It looks like, excluding those on senior status, the only judges in the district who have yet to receive an AI copyright case are: Chief Judge Seeborg and Judges Gilliam, Labson Freeman, Pitts, and Wise. That’s it. Everyone else is already presiding over at least one AI copyright suit.