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Judge Engelmayer excuses Perplexity’s use of 24-point line spacing instead of double
Read more: Judge Engelmayer excuses Perplexity’s use of 24-point line spacing instead of doubleThis is the kind of formatting issue that lawyers lose sleep over. Reddit discovered that Perplexity’s brief for its motion to dismiss was filed in 24-point line spacing (which is common for legal briefs in jurisdictions requiring 28 lines per page) instead of double spacing (slightly wider) required by the court. Reddit explained this was…
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Judge Breyer agrees with Google and denies stay of its motion to dismiss in David L. Greene lawsuit
Read more: Judge Breyer agrees with Google and denies stay of its motion to dismiss in David L. Greene lawsuitJudge Breyer just agreed with Google and denied the stay request on Google’s motion to dismiss of plaintiff David L. Greene, former host of NPR’s All Things Considered. Greene was hoping Judge Breyer would decide his motion to remand the state law case back to state court first. But Judge Breyer wants briefing on that…
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Chicken Soup for the Soul refiles lawsuit v. Anthropic after dismissal for improper joinder. Total = 106 copyright suits v. AI
Read more: Chicken Soup for the Soul refiles lawsuit v. Anthropic after dismissal for improper joinder. Total = 106 copyright suits v. AIChicken Soup for the Soul just refiled their complaint against Anthropic. This comes after Judge Chhabria dismissed their omnibus copyright lawsuit against 8 AI companies, while retaining the lawsuit v. Meta as a related case to Kadrey v. Meta. So far, Chicken Soup for the Soul has not re-filed against the 6 other AI companies…
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In Anders v. Stability AI, Chief Judge Reidinger denies Anders’ motion to alter judgment denying his claims but does not award attorneys’ fees to Stability
Read more: In Anders v. Stability AI, Chief Judge Reidinger denies Anders’ motion to alter judgment denying his claims but does not award attorneys’ fees to StabilityThe Anders v. Stability AI lawsuit is coming to a close in the district court. Chief Judge Reidinger rejected the plaintiff Jerry Anders’ motion to alter the judgment as merely rearguing the same issues and disagreeing with the court’s interpretation of the license at issue in this case. The court held that the license Anders…
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Are AI researchers at U.S. universities engaged in infringement by unlicensed acquisition and use of copyrighted works, or use of AI models trained on unlicensed works? We shall likely find out.
Read more: Are AI researchers at U.S. universities engaged in infringement by unlicensed acquisition and use of copyrighted works, or use of AI models trained on unlicensed works? We shall likely find out.It was bound to happen. With over 100 copyright lawsuits against nearly every AI company in the United States, the very broad infringement claims would eventually sweep in the practices of AI researchers, including at U.S. universities, generally. In fact, use of copyrighted works in AI training and development started first in academic research by…
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Judge Tigar dismisses vicarious liability claim but allows all others by Nazemian v. NVIDIA
Read more: Judge Tigar dismisses vicarious liability claim but allows all others by Nazemian v. NVIDIAIn the lawsuit filed by book authors Nazemian against NVIDIA, Judge Tigar is allowing all of the claims against NVIDIA to proceed except for the vicarious infringement claim. It’s not surprising, but the analysis of the contributory infringement claim deserves attention below. Excerpt: Court’s Analysis of post-Cox Contributory Infringement Claim Interesting is Judge Tigar’s analysis…
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Is Claude killing Anthropic’s copyrights?
Read more: Is Claude killing Anthropic’s copyrights?I continue to be most surprised by how publicly Anthropic is boasting about how Claude Code is writing all lines of computer code at Anthropic. Here’s Claude Code head Boris Cherny recently stating: We use Claude for literally everything. There’s no more manually written code anywhere at the company [Anthropic]. All of the SQL is…
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OpenAI lawyer methodically dissects Elon Musk’s case via Greg Brockman testimony
Read more: OpenAI lawyer methodically dissects Elon Musk’s case via Greg Brockman testimonyOpenAI trial lawyer Sarah Eddy has been methodically dissecting Elon Musk’s claim of breach of charitable trust through the testimony of OpenAI President Greg Brockman. Brockman is the source of the most damaging evidence to OpenAI by contemporaneous diary notes he took during the relevant period. For example: But, during his testimony elicited by Eddy,…
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Mark Zuckerberg is sued for copyright infringement by Elsevier and book publishers. Total hits 105.
Read more: Mark Zuckerberg is sued for copyright infringement by Elsevier and book publishers. Total hits 105.Elsevier and other book publishers have filed today a copyright suit against Mark Zuckerberg as well as Meta. The suit was filed in the Southern District of New York. The publishers allege copyright infringement in torrenting of datasets from shadow libraries, web scraping, training AI models, along with contributory infringement and removal of CMI in…