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Jensen Huang, other NVIDIA officers sued in copyright shareholder derivative lawsuit. Untested theory spreads to Illinois.
Read more: Jensen Huang, other NVIDIA officers sued in copyright shareholder derivative lawsuit. Untested theory spreads to Illinois.Jensen Huang and other NVIDIA officers and directors were just sued today under the new theory of copyright shareholder derivative lawsuit. I’ve coined this term to describe shareholder derivative lawsuits under securities law that are based on the allegation that the directors and officers (D&O) approved copyright infringement, exposed the company to substantial risk of…
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Throwing comity to the wind, German court rules that U.S. company Suno did not engage in fair use in AI training in the United States under U.S. Copyright Law.
Read more: Throwing comity to the wind, German court rules that U.S. company Suno did not engage in fair use in AI training in the United States under U.S. Copyright Law.The Munich Regional Court (Landgericht München) handed down a stunning decision today. The Unsurprising Part of the Decision The Court’s ruling under German law was not surprising. Like the GEMA v. OpenAI decision, the Munich Regional Court found that Suno, the AI music generator company, committed copyright infringement under German law, including by AI memorization…
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Leopold Aschenbrenner, media’s AI golden boy investor, unloads all public stock to Citadel after facing margin calls
Read more: Leopold Aschenbrenner, media’s AI golden boy investor, unloads all public stock to Citadel after facing margin callsThere’s no bigger hype machine that the business media, who are wont to anoint twenty year olds as the “next Steve Jobs” (Elizabeth Holmes) or the “next Warren Buffett” (Sam Bankman Fried). Next up is Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI employee turned hedge fund founder of Situational Awareness, who just last week was featured in…
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EVOX Productions, maker of car images, enlists 3rd law firm to files its 4th copyright suit v. AI training use. This one v. Midjourney.
Read more: EVOX Productions, maker of car images, enlists 3rd law firm to files its 4th copyright suit v. AI training use. This one v. Midjourney.EVOX Productions, the professional maker of car images, has just sued Midjourney for alleged infringement based on unauthorized use of their images contained without permission in the LAION dataset. This is the 130th copyright lawsuit against AI companies in the United States. This is EVOX Productions’ fourth such lawsuit. relying on 3 different firms. The…
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Judge Lee orders Anthropic’s Benjamin Mann to answer Concord Music II complaint by Aug. 17
Read more: Judge Lee orders Anthropic’s Benjamin Mann to answer Concord Music II complaint by Aug. 17After the parties disputed whether Benjamin Mann, a named defendant in Concord Music v. Anthropic II, Judge Lee granted 2 additional weeks. Judge Lee ruled: “Having considered the parties’ arguments in the 94 Joint Status Report, the Court ORDERS Defendant Mann to file his answer to the Second Amended Complaint by 8/17/2026.” Mann is the…
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Updated US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies. Total = 129 (Jul. 30, 2026)
Read more: Updated US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies. Total = 129 (Jul. 30, 2026)Here’s the latest U.S. Map of Copyright Suits with links to each docket. We added Sony Music Entertainment v. Uncharted Labs II, a case related to the UMG Recordings v. Uncharted Labs I before Judge Hellerstein. We also activated the Brave Software v. News Corp. case, which had been voluntarily dismissed but later refiled. News…
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Jensen Huang visits Pres. Trump in Oval Office. Trump touts U.S. lead over China in AI.
Read more: Jensen Huang visits Pres. Trump in Oval Office. Trump touts U.S. lead over China in AI.AI CEOs Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and others are in DC for discussions about AI policy. Yesterday, President Trump hailed Jensen Huang in the Oval Office–calling him “a very great gentleman“–and boasted about the U.S. lead in AI over China. Said Trump: “We’re leading China in AI by a lot.”
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AI companies now asserting counterclaims v. Copyright Holders. Anthropic adopts new strategy in AI copyright suits
Read more: AI companies now asserting counterclaims v. Copyright Holders. Anthropic adopts new strategy in AI copyright suitsNanoble, represented by Quinn Emanuel, may have started a trend in the AI copyright litigation. Nanoble filed an indemnity counterclaim against Disney for allegedly violating the terms of use required by Nanoble’s AI video generator. We can read more about that strategy here: Now, Anthropic has filed a counterclaim of non-infringement against Bartz v. Anthropic…
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Former Wall St. Journal writer Philip Shishkin drops copyright claim v. Anthropic
Read more: Former Wall St. Journal writer Philip Shishkin drops copyright claim v. AnthropicCuriously, book author and former Wall Street Journal Philip Shishkin has voluntarily dropped his copyright claim against Anthropic in the lawsuit with lead plaintiff Cambronne or John Carreyrou. Shishkin gave no reason for dropping for copyright claim against Anthropic. The other plaintiffs remain. DOWNLOAD: