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Bytedance seeks to dismiss 1st amended complaint of Ted Entertainment, YouTube video creator
Read more: Bytedance seeks to dismiss 1st amended complaint of Ted Entertainment, YouTube video creatorBytedance has filed another motion to dismiss in the Ted Entertainment v. Bytedance case. The arguments are similar to the first such motion Bytedance filed to the original complaint. Excerpt:
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AI copyright cases hit 125 on 250th birthday of United States. New infographic.
Read more: AI copyright cases hit 125 on 250th birthday of United States. New infographic.On the 250th birthday of the United States of America, the copyright lawsuits filed against AI companies hit 125. A fitting number. This number shows, not only that the U.S. is the global epicenter of copyright litigation against AI companies, but also that the United States is the land of litigation. To commemorate this moment,…
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Copyright shareholder derivative suit plaintiff Anderson files notice to relate case to City of St. Clair Shores Police v. Microsoft
Read more: Copyright shareholder derivative suit plaintiff Anderson files notice to relate case to City of St. Clair Shores Police v. MicrosoftPlaintiff Anderson in the just filed Anderson v. Nadella in the Western District of Washington has already filed a notice that it is a related case to the another shareholder derivative suit related to Microsoft’s AI products, City of St Clair Shores Police and Fire Retirement System v. Microsoft Corporation et al, No. 2:26-cv-02071-SKV (“St.…
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Hugging Face open-source AI platform dragged into AI Copyright Wars in suit by EVOX Productions v. Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art. Suits hit 125 v. AI cos. in U.S. on its 250th birthday
Read more: Hugging Face open-source AI platform dragged into AI Copyright Wars in suit by EVOX Productions v. Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art. Suits hit 125 v. AI cos. in U.S. on its 250th birthdayThe AI Copyright Wars are escalating. EVOX Productions, which has already sued Stanford University for the creation of the ImageNet dataset, has now turned its litigation attention to Hugging Face, the open-source platform for AI developers. Hugging Face’s alleged infringement includes: “the ‘Stanford Cars’ dataset, contains 8,144 images of automobiles for public download, including 225…
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JP Morgan has to pay advancement of legal fees incurred by Charlie Javice. Does ruling cast Nanoble’s indemnity claim v. Disney in a new light?
Read more: JP Morgan has to pay advancement of legal fees incurred by Charlie Javice. Does ruling cast Nanoble’s indemnity claim v. Disney in a new light?Charlie Javice, the then-29-year-old founder of the startup Frank later acquired by JP Morgan, has already been convicted of three counts of fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit fraud back in 2025. The fraud stemmed from inflated user numbers for the website service for student loan applications that were touted by her during…
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OpenAI discussing with Trump Administration giving 5% equity stake in OpenAI
Read more: OpenAI discussing with Trump Administration giving 5% equity stake in OpenAIIt looks like we are one step closer to U.S. government owning an equity stake in OpenAI. Financial Times is reporting that OpenAI and the Trump Administration have discussed the idea of OpenAI donating a 5% equity stake to the U.S. government. This idea is tied to the establishment of an AI Sovereign Wealth Fund…
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Michael Sullivan and textbook authors sue Mark Zuckerberg, Meta for copyright infringement
Read more: Michael Sullivan and textbook authors sue Mark Zuckerberg, Meta for copyright infringementMeta just get hit with its 16th AI copyright lawsuit. Mark Zuckerberg was named, too. Zuckerberg is named in three such lawsuits: Elsevier, Hobbs, and this one. Michael Sullivan and other textbook authors have alleged similar allegations of torrenting and training with their copyrighted works as alleged in other book author lawsuits, including Kadrey v.…
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Apple, now represented by Dale Cendali, asks court to dismiss DMCA claim by YouTube creators Ted Entertainment
Read more: Apple, now represented by Dale Cendali, asks court to dismiss DMCA claim by YouTube creators Ted EntertainmentApple, now represented by Dale Cendali of Kirkland & Ellis and a team of lawyers from Kirkland and Latham & Watkins, just filed a motion to dismiss the YouTube creators Ted Entertainment’s DMCA anti-circumvention claim. Apple’s argument is the same one being made in other DMCA lawsuits related to YouTube videos that they are not…
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Judge Pitts to preside over cluster of Anthropic book author suits in ND California
Read more: Judge Pitts to preside over cluster of Anthropic book author suits in ND CaliforniaJudge Pitts made it official: nearly all of the later filed book author and publisher suits against Anthropic are now related cases to Cambronne aka Carreyrou v. Anthropic. The related cases designation means Judge Pitts will get all these other cases too (original judge assignments noted): Judge Pitts’ order didn’t include the recently filed lawsuit…