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Thomson Reuters, ROSS Intelligence disagree on meaning of Third Circuit’s ASTM v. UpCodes in supplemental briefs asked by Third Circuit
Read more: Thomson Reuters, ROSS Intelligence disagree on meaning of Third Circuit’s ASTM v. UpCodes in supplemental briefs asked by Third CircuitThe Third Circuit asked the parties in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence for supplemental briefs (on top of the supplemental letters) on how the Third Circuit’s own fair use decision in American Society for Testing & Materals v. UpCodes applies to their case. The fact that the Third Circuit has now 2 fair use appeals…
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Recently filed lawsuits by Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Meta, Carreyrou v. Meta, and Cognella v. Meta, all filed by same law firm, now related to Kadrey v. Meta
Read more: Recently filed lawsuits by Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Meta, Carreyrou v. Meta, and Cognella v. Meta, all filed by same law firm, now related to Kadrey v. MetaJudge Chhabria just granted pending motions to relate, to Kadrey v. Meta, the following cases: Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Meta, Carreyrou v. Meta, and Cognella Inc. v. Meta, all filed by the same law firms of Stris & Maher and Freedman Norman Friedland LLP. The latter 3 cases all involve book authors and…
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Was ImageNet offered illegally? Copyright suit over ImageNet dataset, EVOX Productions v. Stanford University, puts academic AI research under new scrutiny
Read more: Was ImageNet offered illegally? Copyright suit over ImageNet dataset, EVOX Productions v. Stanford University, puts academic AI research under new scrutinyEarlier, in March 2026, Stanford University filed its Answer to the Second Amended Complaint filed by EVOX Productions. EVOX is the producer of car photographs alleged to be used by Stanford researchers without licenses as a part of its ImageNet dataset. Stanford’s defenses are no surprise. The ImageNet dataset of images scraped from the Internet…
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OpenAI faces most copyright lawsuits. But other AI companies face multiple lawsuits, too.
Read more: OpenAI faces most copyright lawsuits. But other AI companies face multiple lawsuits, too.Nearly four years into the AI Copyright Wars, more than 100 copyright lawsuits have been filed against AI companies. But the number of lawsuits by AI company is not equal. OpenAI faces the most lawsuits by far. Here’s a look at the Top 18 AI Companies by Number of Copyright Suits: Download a PDF of…
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How we can survive AI. Ben Sasse’s WSJ Op-Ed
Read more: How we can survive AI. Ben Sasse’s WSJ Op-EdBen Sasse has Stage 4 metatastic cancer. Based on his initial 4-month prognosis, he should be already dead as he discussed recently. In today’s Wall Street Journal, he wrote an Op-Ed on “Habits for Humanity in the Age of AI.” The article is “adapted from his speech accepting the Manhattan Institute’s Alexander Hamilton Award on…
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Are university AI researchers now at risk of facing copyright suits for acquiring or using unlicensed materials, or models trained on them?
Read more: Are university AI researchers now at risk of facing copyright suits for acquiring or using unlicensed materials, or models trained on them?When I spoke at the NeurIPS conference a couple years ago, I prodded the audience full of AI researchers from universities to think about their roles in the ongoing debate over the acquisition and use of copyrighted materials to research, develop, and train AI models. I didn’t say it there but said it in my…
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Udio admits to using music from YouTube videos as training data
Read more: Udio admits to using music from YouTube videos as training dataOn April 29, 2026, Udio aka Uncharted Labs filed its Answer to Sony Music Entertainment’s First Amended Complaint. Noteworthy is Udio’s admission (long assumed) that it used the music files from YouTube videos to train its AI models: Although this admission received media attention, it was not surprising. Udio is filing its Answer now after…
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Anthropic asks Judge Martinez-Olguin to deem Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cognella lawsuits as related cases to Bartz v. Anthropic
Read more: Anthropic asks Judge Martinez-Olguin to deem Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cognella lawsuits as related cases to Bartz v. AnthropicAlthough Judge Martínez-Olguín expressed doubt of Anthropic’s earlier notice to seek a related case status between Carreyrou v. Anthropic and Bartz v. Anthopic, Anthropic has formally asked the Judge to consider related case status with two recently filed lawsuits Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Anthropic and Cognella, Inc. v. Anthropic. Presumably, because Judge Pitts…
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Stanford University sued for copyright infringement based on Stanford AI researchers’ compilation of unlicensed images in ImageNet dataset, one of the most important datasets in the history of AI research
Read more: Stanford University sued for copyright infringement based on Stanford AI researchers’ compilation of unlicensed images in ImageNet dataset, one of the most important datasets in the history of AI researchIn January 2023, with the release of AI generators, I predicted copyright lawsuits will be filed against AI companies. I was right. Within the same week, the 1st lawsuit against generative AI companies was filed. The first of many to come. Then, upon researching the origin of AI training, which started at universities, I predicted…
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Judge Engelmayer excuses Perplexity’s use of 24-point line spacing instead of double
Read more: Judge Engelmayer excuses Perplexity’s use of 24-point line spacing instead of doubleThis is the kind of formatting issue that lawyers lose sleep over. Reddit discovered that Perplexity’s brief for its motion to dismiss was filed in 24-point line spacing (which is common for legal briefs in jurisdictions requiring 28 lines per page) instead of double spacing (slightly wider) required by the court. Reddit explained this was…