In one of the more intriguing litigation moves in the AI copyright lawsuits, Anthropic told Judge Pitts that its plans on seeking to have (1) Carreyrou/Cambronne v. Anthropic and (2) Chicken Soup for the Soul both declared related cases to the Bartz v. Anthropic lawsuit.
That case was declared a class action and then settled, with the final approval / fairness hearing set for April 23 before Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin (who was reassigned the case after Judge William Alsup’s retirement).
If Carreyrou (which consists of book authors who opted out of the Bartz settlement) and Chicken Soup are deemed related by Judge Martinez-Olguin, those cases would then get reassigned to her.
Anthropic’s position:
