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Book author Das sues, pro se, Meta, Google, OpenAI, X. Lawsuits hit 120 in U.S.
Read more: Book author Das sues, pro se, Meta, Google, OpenAI, X. Lawsuits hit 120 in U.S.Book author Kalishwar Das sued Meta, Google, OpenAI, and X in a pro se filing in the District of South Carolina, Columbia Division. (This is the second pro se complaint we included in our tracking of cases. The other was Anders v. Stability AI, which was filed in the W.D. District of North Carolina.) Excerpt:…
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NVIDIA hit with 8th copyright suit. Latest filed by S.A. Jamendo over MTG-Jamendo Dataset of 55,000 full audio tracks
Read more: NVIDIA hit with 8th copyright suit. Latest filed by S.A. Jamendo over MTG-Jamendo Dataset of 55,000 full audio tracksNVIDIA just sued again for alleged copyright infringement, the eighth lawsuit it has faced for its training of its AI models. Plaintiff S.A. JAMENDO alleges that NVIDIA has used its audio files to train NVIDIA models. The interesting twist is that Jamendo has partnered with Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain,…
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Parallel litigation in 100-plus copyright suits v. AI companies produces litigation quagmire. Resolution looks far off.
Read more: Parallel litigation in 100-plus copyright suits v. AI companies produces litigation quagmire. Resolution looks far off.Today, we are launching the AI Status Copyright Cases Tracker. It depicts all 118 copyright lawsuits against AI companies in the United States by the stage of litigation: pre-discovery, discovery, summary judgment, interlocutory and direct appeals, and Supreme Court. It also depicts how the same AI companies are commonly facing multiple lawsuits filed by different…
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If United States takes equity in U.S. AI companies under Sen. Sanders’ or Pres. Trump’s plan, how would the copyright lawsuits v. those AI companies be affected?
Read more: If United States takes equity in U.S. AI companies under Sen. Sanders’ or Pres. Trump’s plan, how would the copyright lawsuits v. those AI companies be affected?Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The idea that the U.S. government should take equity interests in U.S. AI companies, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others appears to be gaining momentum. In two different approaches, the strange bedfellows Sen. Bernie Sanders and President Donald Trump floated the idea that the U.S. government…
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Magistrate Judge Cousins initially assigned Shakespeare v. Anthropic after Judge Tigar’s recusal
Read more: Magistrate Judge Cousins initially assigned Shakespeare v. Anthropic after Judge Tigar’s recusalORDER REASSIGNING CASE IT IS ORDERED that this case is reassigned using a proportionate, random and blind system pursuant to General Order No. 44 to Magistrate Judge Nathanael M. Cousins. Judge Jon S. Tigar no longer assigned to the case. Counsel are instructed that all future filings shall bear the updated judicial initials immediately after…
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Pres. Trump: Anthropic’s Fable model might have been a national security threat before taken down
Read more: Pres. Trump: Anthropic’s Fable model might have been a national security threat before taken downPresident Trump discussed his thoughts on the controversy over Anthropic’s Fable 5 model. The U.S. government issued an export control on it, which caused Anthropic to remove it from the public’s use. Here’s an interview with Axios in which Trump discussed the controversy as a matter of national security. The Axios interview included 4 minutes…
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DeepMind loses Nobel laureate John Jumper to Anthropic and Noam Shazer, co-author of transformer paper “Attention Is All You Need” to OpenAI. Is DeepMind in deep crisis?
Read more: DeepMind loses Nobel laureate John Jumper to Anthropic and Noam Shazer, co-author of transformer paper “Attention Is All You Need” to OpenAI. Is DeepMind in deep crisis?On this quiet Friday, the AI world was rattled by news of Nobel laureate John Jumper’s defection from Google DeepMind to Anthropic. This comes a day after the departure of Noam Shazeer from Google Gemini to OpenAI. Shazeer was one of the co-authors of the seminal transformer paper, “Attention Is All You Need,” when he…
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Suno seeks impoundment of total number of audio files used to train model
Read more: Suno seeks impoundment of total number of audio files used to train modelIn UMG Recordings v. Suno, “Suno requests impoundment of two discrete references to the number of audio files Plaintiffs allege Suno used to train its generative AI model (the ‘Model Training Figure’). As Suno explained in support of its earlier request for impoundment of this same information, the Model Training Figure is intentionally nonpublic and…
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Judge Tigar recuses himself from newly filed Shakespeare v. Anthropic
Read more: Judge Tigar recuses himself from newly filed Shakespeare v. AnthropicJudge Jon S. Tigar issued an order of recusal from the newly filed Shakespeare v. Anthropic. There’s a good chance this case will be considered a case related to the earliest filed book author suit, Carreyrou v. Anthropic before Judge Pitts, who could get all the book author / publisher suits against Anthropic other than Bartz…
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Magistrate Judge Richlin mostly denies Midjourney’s motion to compel discovery re: Disney’s own use or development of AI and prompts used to generate examples from Midjourney not used in Complaint
Read more: Magistrate Judge Richlin mostly denies Midjourney’s motion to compel discovery re: Disney’s own use or development of AI and prompts used to generate examples from Midjourney not used in ComplaintMagistrate Judge Richlin mostly denied Midjourney’s attempt to get discovery of Disney’s own use or development of AI. Judge Richlin found such use irrelevant to Midjourney’s fair use defense, citing a similar ruling in the In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation. The judge also ruled that Disney’s prompts used to generate allegedly infringing outputs on…