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Google sued for Gemini’s alleged role in wrongful death of Jonathan Gavalas. Suit alleges claims in design defect, failure to warn, negligence
Read more: Google sued for Gemini’s alleged role in wrongful death of Jonathan Gavalas. Suit alleges claims in design defect, failure to warn, negligenceGoogle is facing another tort lawsuit, this time for Google Gemini’s alleged role in causing the suicide of Jonathan Gavalas, who committed suicide. Google earlier settled tort lawsuits related to its program called Character AI. This might be the first wrongful death lawsuit related to Gemini. Exerpt: DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT
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Latest U.S. Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies. Total = 87 (Mar. 5, 2026)
Read more: Latest U.S. Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies. Total = 87 (Mar. 5, 2026)The cases against AI companies continue to grow. Two new cases were added to the Map of Copyright Suits: Some recent cases have now been assigned judges: DOWNLOAD THE MAP WITH LINKS TO EACH DOCKET
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Perplexity argues Feist and bedrock principle that facts cannot be copyrighted requires dismissal of The New York Times’ copyright suit
Read more: Perplexity argues Feist and bedrock principle that facts cannot be copyrighted requires dismissal of The New York Times’ copyright suitThis past week, Perplexity AI filed a reply to support its motion to dismiss the complaint of the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. Perplexity relies on the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Feist, which recognized the bedrock principle that facts cannot be copyrighted by anyone. Excerpt: My Take on the use of facts…
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Judge Oetken grants extension to discovery in Lerhman v. Lovo
Read more: Judge Oetken grants extension to discovery in Lerhman v. LovoORDER granting 60 Letter Motion for Extension of Time to Complete Discovery: Granted. The parties’ joint request for an extension of time to complete discovery is granted. The Court adopts the parties’ discovery schedule as follows: (a) the deadline for the completion of all fact discovery is extended to May 5, 2026; (b) the deadline…
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Magistrate Judge Ona Wang is reassigned discovery issues from Magistrate Judge Netburn in Advance Local Media v. Cohere
Read more: Magistrate Judge Ona Wang is reassigned discovery issues from Magistrate Judge Netburn in Advance Local Media v. CohereMagistrate Judge Ona Wang, who is assigned to the OpenAI MDL Litigation, has now also been assigned to Advance Local Media v. Cohere. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn had been originally assigned the latter case.
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UMG Recordings an Suno seek 3 month extension to schedule. Would delay summary judgment briefing until Nov. 2026.
Read more: UMG Recordings an Suno seek 3 month extension to schedule. Would delay summary judgment briefing until Nov. 2026.Wow, UMG Recordings and Suno are asking for another extension to the scheduling order. This is the fourth extension to the scheduling order sought by the parties; the prior 3 the court granted. This would delay the schedule by about 3 months. Summary judgment motions would likely be filed in November instead of August 2026.…
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Google removes lawsuit of David L. Greene, former NPR host of “Morning Edition.” Case alleged state claims for voice appropriation to train Google’s NotebookLM. Lawsuit No. 87 v. AI companies.
Read more: Google removes lawsuit of David L. Greene, former NPR host of “Morning Edition.” Case alleged state claims for voice appropriation to train Google’s NotebookLM. Lawsuit No. 87 v. AI companies.Google has filed a notice of removal of the state law case of David L. Greene v. Google. It alleges various state law claims against Google for allegedly using recordings of Greene’s voice to train the model behind NotebookLM. Greene was the former host of NPR’s Morning Edition and current podcaster. The removal to federal…
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Disney v. Minimax case marches on as Disney served Quinn Emanuel attorneys representing Defendants in China, Singapore
Read more: Disney v. Minimax case marches on as Disney served Quinn Emanuel attorneys representing Defendants in China, SingaporeWell, it looks like companies based in China can be sued for alleged copyright infringement in the United States after all. Quinn Emanuel attorneys, representing Chinese companies Minimax, and Shanghai Xiyu Jizhi Technology, and a Singaporean company Nanonoble Ptd., filed a Stipulation that proposes to treat the service of the complaint on Quinn Emanuel as…
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Sam Altman announces amended agreement with Department of War as users make Claude No. 1 on App Store
Read more: Sam Altman announces amended agreement with Department of War as users make Claude No. 1 on App StoreThe turmoil over OpenAI’s agreement with the Department of War after it rescinded the agreement with Anthropic continues unabated. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, took to X to announce OpenAI had beefed up the language for guardrails in the agreement with the DoW: Meanwhile, many people apparently terminated their accounts with OpenAI and Anthropic’s Claude…
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Judge P. Casey Pitts gets reassigned John Carreyrou v. Anthropic copyright suit
Read more: Judge P. Casey Pitts gets reassigned John Carreyrou v. Anthropic copyright suitBig news: Judge P. Casey Pitts was reassigned Carreyrou v. Anthropic, the omnibus copyright lawsuit filed by book author John Carreyrou and other book authors who opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement. (Judge Trina Thompson, originally assigned the case, recused herself.) Judge Pitts sits in San Jose. He was appointed to the bench…