The first domino in the omnibus copyright lawsuit filed by book author John Carreyrou v. Anthopic has dropped.
Following a joint stipulation by the relevant parties, Judge Thompson issued an order severing Carreyrou v. OpenAI so it can be transferred to the MDL Litigation, where it most likely will be stayed while the rest of the case nears the end of fact discovery.
Which is the next domino to drop?
Google has already filed a motion to sever. And we should expect Meta, Perplexity, and xAI will, too.
If the court severs all these cases, then Carreyrou v. Anthropic will have spawned 6 copyright lawsuits instead of 1. And we won’t get an omnibus copyright lawsuit against the U.S. AI industry.
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