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Judge Blumenfeld Jr. rejects motions to dismiss of Shanghai Xiyu Jizki Tech. Co. & Nanoble. Disney, Universal, Warner Bros. case v. Hailuo AI proceeds.
Read more: Judge Blumenfeld Jr. rejects motions to dismiss of Shanghai Xiyu Jizki Tech. Co. & Nanoble. Disney, Universal, Warner Bros. case v. Hailuo AI proceeds.Judge Blumenfeld Jr. had no trouble denying the motions to dismiss filed by SXJT, “of whichMiniMax is a division or subsidiary, along with their affiliate and/or agent,” and Nanonoble Pte. Ltd., “which operates at the direction and under the control of MiniMax.” The court found it had personal jurisdiction over SXJT and the complaint sufficiently…
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Google claims its AI agents using Gemini 3.5 Flash created a decent operating system by “a single prompt” alone. But does it fail to qualify for copyright then?
Read more: Google claims its AI agents using Gemini 3.5 Flash created a decent operating system by “a single prompt” alone. But does it fail to qualify for copyright then?One of the most fascinating developments in Silicon Valley is the extent to which AI companies are publicly boasting that they used AI agents to generate “100 percent” of the source code for a computer program. In their view, the boast is better if humans did practically nothing. And AI did it all! I’ve written…
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Adding Hobbs v. Meta, latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 113
Read more: Adding Hobbs v. Meta, latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 113Whenever we share an updated map of the copyright suits against AI companies, another lawsuit is filed. Sure enough, yesterday, another book author suit was filed against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, similar to the Elsevier lawsuit. But this suit also names two former Meta research scientists, Joelle Pineau and Guillaume Lampler. This may be a…
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Hobbs v. Meta: book authors sue Meta’s former AI research scientists Joelle Pineau & Guillaume Lampler, in addition to Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
Read more: Hobbs v. Meta: book authors sue Meta’s former AI research scientists Joelle Pineau & Guillaume Lampler, in addition to Meta and Mark ZuckerbergWell, it was bound to happen. The 113th U.S. copyright lawsuit against an AI company now is going after the AI research scientists allegedly involved in the training of AI models. The only other one, Concord Music v. Anthropic II, at least was limited to co-founders of the company Anthropic, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann.…
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Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 112 (May 22, 2026)
Read more: Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 112 (May 22, 2026)We added 12 lawsuits since our last map. We also reorganized some of the lawsuits in the Northern District of California, clustering some of them by defendants. DOWNLOAD THE PDF with links to each docket:
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Book Publishers secure default judgment v. Anna’s Archive for books datasets
Read more: Book Publishers secure default judgment v. Anna’s Archive for books datasetsNot surprisingly, Judge Jed Rakoff signed off on the default judgment against Anna’s Archive. The judgment includes injunctive relief and damages in the amount of $19.5 million. This is the second default judgment against Anna’s Archive. The first was secured by Atlantic Recording, also from Judge Rakoff. According to Wikipedia, “Anna’s Archive is an open…
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Uncharted Labs wins dismissal of two claims in copyright suit by musician Justice
Read more: Uncharted Labs wins dismissal of two claims in copyright suit by musician JusticeJudge Hellerstein agreed with defendant Uncharted Labs’ motion to dismiss musician Tony Justice’s claim for creation of unauthorized derivative works in outputs of Udio’s AI because the complaint lacked specific allegations. The court granted leave to amend the complaint to add such allegations within 30 days. But, agreeing with his own ruling in Sony Music…
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UMG Recordings, Spotify strike deal to allow users to create AI music covers of songs by participating UMG artists — for fee
Read more: UMG Recordings, Spotify strike deal to allow users to create AI music covers of songs by participating UMG artists — for feeFrom Spotify’s press release: Groundbreaking responsible AI tool to launch as paid add-on for Spotify Premium users Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) today announced landmark recorded music and music publishing licensing agreements enabling Spotify to launch a new tool allowing fans to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs from participating artists and…
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Magistrate Judge Wang agrees with Plaintiffs’ motion to get depositions of Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Satya Nadella in Musk v. Altman
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang agrees with Plaintiffs’ motion to get depositions of Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Satya Nadella in Musk v. AltmanEven though OpenAI won its defense in Musk v. Altman where the court found the claims were barred by the statute of limitations, Musk’s lawsuit continues to nag OpenAI. Magistrate Judge Wang just granted the plaintiffs’ motion in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation to get the deposition transcripts of four Musk witnesses: Sam Altman,…
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Parties in cluster of Kadrey v. Meta-related cases filed case management statements
Read more: Parties in cluster of Kadrey v. Meta-related cases filed case management statementsThe parties in the cluster of cases involving Kadrey v. Meta or ones consolidated with or related to that case have filed their respective Joint Case Management Statements. Kadrey is a proposed class action. The others are not. They have attempted to align their Scheduling Orders. Kadrey: Entrepreneur Media: DOWNLOAD THE JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENTS