Add the Advanced Local Media plaintiffs to the list of plaintiffs dropping their contributory infringement claims against AI companies after the Supreme Court’s 9-0 decision in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment.
I expect most of these lawsuits will drop the contributory infringement claim or ultimately have it dismissed.
A few plaintiffs may try to argue (i) intentional inducement or even (ii) developing a technology specially designed only for infringement. But the latter theories need evidence and are also likely to be losers. The Sony safe harbor looms large for the latter theory: technologies capable of substantially non-infringing uses, such as creation of non-infringing works, will almost certainly defeat any claim of a “specially designed” technology that is good for “nothing but infringement.”
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