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Judge Orrick recuses from SEIU Pension Plan v. Adobe
Read more: Judge Orrick recuses from SEIU Pension Plan v. AdobeJudge Orrick recused himself from SEUI Pension Plan v. Adobe, the copyright shareholder derivative lawsuit.
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Kunlun, Skywork AI move to dismiss Attack the Sound complaint
Read more: Kunlun, Skywork AI move to dismiss Attack the Sound complaintDefendants Kunlun and Skywork AI moved to dismiss the complaint filed by Attack the Sound in the Northern District of Illinois. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE MOTION TO DISMISS
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OpenAI faces discovery sanctions motion by New York Times
Read more: OpenAI faces discovery sanctions motion by New York TimesNew York Times and other news plaintiffs filed a motion for discovery sanctions against OpenAI for its alleged concealment of the ability to conduct relevant searches that the plaintiffs had requested, which they news plaintiffs say they discovered from the 2d deposition of Vincent Monaco: “Instead, its two-year effo1t to hide its ability to search its training data and output logs for News Plaintiffs’ copyrighted…
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Demis Hassabis calls for testing of AI models by Standards Body modeled on FINRA. Idea sounds similar to proposal by Mark Thomas at Lawfare.
Read more: Demis Hassabis calls for testing of AI models by Standards Body modeled on FINRA. Idea sounds similar to proposal by Mark Thomas at Lawfare.What Demis Hassabis Proposed Demis Hassabis proposed that a Standards Body modeled on FINRA, an industry regulatory Body that is a self regulatory organization for the financial sector, be set up to review the latest frontier models before they are publicly launched: “The rapid progress we’re seeing in AI requires a new approach to testing…
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Meta sued for allegedly using AI program that had disparate impact in terminating employees who took protected medical and family leave
Read more: Meta sued for allegedly using AI program that had disparate impact in terminating employees who took protected medical and family leaveMeta was sued under the Family and Medical Leave Act for allegedly using an AI program that had a discriminatory impact against employees who used protected medical and family leave while at Meta. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT:
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New York first state to ban new data centers for 1 year. More states likely to follow.
Read more: New York first state to ban new data centers for 1 year. More states likely to follow.Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law New York’s 1-year ban on the building of new large data centers often behind the training and powering of AI models. New York is the first state to do so. But others likely to follow. Public backlash against data centers have become a hot button issue. But the New…
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Google hit with 2d AI copyright suit in 2 days. Publishers sue Google for the 1st time for alleged infringement in its AI model Gemini
Read more: Google hit with 2d AI copyright suit in 2 days. Publishers sue Google for the 1st time for alleged infringement in its AI model GeminiThe AI Copyright Wars are escalating. Google was just hit with its 2d copyright lawsuit in 2 days. Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, the book author Scott Turow, and S.C.R.I.B.E filed a class action copyright suit in the Southern District of New York. It’s similar to the suit they filed against Meta and Mark…
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Apple goes to war v. OpenAI. Alleges trade secret theft.
Read more: Apple goes to war v. OpenAI. Alleges trade secret theft.Once partners, Apple has now sued OpenAI and ex-Apple employees Chang Liu (OpenAI’s staff) and Tang Yew Tan (OpenAI’s chief product officer) who went to work for OpenAI and allegedly misappropriated Apple’s trade secrets. Apple’s complaint was filed in the Northern District of California. Excerpt: COMPLAINT:
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Google sued again in AI copyright lawsuit by EVOX Productions for alleged use of images to train Nano Banana model. Total AI suits = 127
Read more: Google sued again in AI copyright lawsuit by EVOX Productions for alleged use of images to train Nano Banana model. Total AI suits = 127After suing Stanford University for creating the famous ImageNet datasets that allegedly include EVOX Productions’ car photographs, EVOX continues filing more lawsuits. First it was Stanford. Then it was Hugging Face, Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art. Now it’s Google. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT:
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Judge Pitts relates Shakespeare v. Anthropic to Cambronne v. Anthropic. Judge to preside over all book author suits v. Anthropic, post-Bartz
Read more: Judge Pitts relates Shakespeare v. Anthropic to Cambronne v. Anthropic. Judge to preside over all book author suits v. Anthropic, post-BartzAs we predicted, Judge Pitts has deemed the Shakespeare v. Anthropic suit a related case to Cambronne v. Anthropic in the Northern District of California. The music cases (Concord Music I and II, and BMG) are before Judge Lee. The book cases before Judge Pitts are: Judge Pitts’ Order: Related Story: