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Adding to their largest settlement in US copyright history, Bartz book authors’ class announces another historic milestone: 91.3% participation of total works in class. Wow.
Read more: Adding to their largest settlement in US copyright history, Bartz book authors’ class announces another historic milestone: 91.3% participation of total works in class. Wow.In an update provided to the court ahead of the final approval hearing, the Bartz Class Counsel announced a stunning participation rate of 91.3 percent — or 440,409 of 482,460 works in the class — have been claimed for distribution of the class settlement funds. 91.3 percent participation for a non-personal injury class action is…
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Thomson Reuters tries to distinguish Third Circuit’s UpCodes fair use decision
Read more: Thomson Reuters tries to distinguish Third Circuit’s UpCodes fair use decisionThomson Reuters submitted its reply to ROSS Intelligence’s 28(j) letter of supplemental authority based on the Third Circuit’s recent fair use decision in American Society for Testing & Materials v. UpCodes, Inc. involving a for-profit, AI-native startup company‘s republication of building codes that some jurisdictions have adopted as law. Despite some salient factual similarities, Thomson Reuters argues that…
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The Northern District of California is the epicenter of AI copyright lawsuits, 47 and counting
Read more: The Northern District of California is the epicenter of AI copyright lawsuits, 47 and countingThe Northern District of California, the jurisdiction for Silicon Valley, is the clear epicenter of AI copyright lawsuits. Not just in the United States, but in the world. There are now 47 copyright lawsuits against AI companies. That’s more lawsuits than the total suits in the countries in rest of the world combined. The Southern…
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Judge Lee was assigned another AI copyright suit: Beaulier v. NVIDIA
Read more: Judge Lee was assigned another AI copyright suit: Beaulier v. NVIDIAJudge Lee was assigned another AI copyright lawsuit: Beaulier v. NVIDIA. It’s her 5th AI copyright lawsuit. Related Stories
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Judge Scott Corley gets assigned another AI copyright case: Beualier v. Roblox
Read more: Judge Scott Corley gets assigned another AI copyright case: Beualier v. RobloxJudge Scott Corley was assigned another AI copyright lawsuit: Beaulier v. Roblox. It’s her 4th AI copyright lawsuit. Related Story
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Judge Gonzalez Rogers sets further case management conference in Hendrix v. Apple for May 11 via Zoom
Read more: Judge Gonzalez Rogers sets further case management conference in Hendrix v. Apple for May 11 via ZoomCLERK’S NOTICE SETTING CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE. You are hereby notified that the Further Case Management Conference will be held by Zoom Webinar. Joint Case Management Statement is due by 5/4/2026. Further Case Management Conference set for 5/11/2026, at 02:00 PM in Oakland, – Videoconference Only. This proceeding will be held via a Zoom webinar.Webinar Access:…
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Judge Hellerstein denies Udio’s motion to dismiss DMCA anti-circumvention claim. Court finds sufficient allegations based on YouTube’s “rolling cipher” TPM
Read more: Judge Hellerstein denies Udio’s motion to dismiss DMCA anti-circumvention claim. Court finds sufficient allegations based on YouTube’s “rolling cipher” TPMIn Sony Music Entertainment v. Uncharted Labs dba Udio, Judge Hellerstein found that the complaint sufficient alleged that YouTube circumvented an access-control to YouTube videos via the much-disputed “rolling cipher” technological protection measure. Udio argued it was a copy-control measure. Sony Music argued it was both copy-control and access-control. Judge Hellerstein ruled that the complaint…
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Judge Lee relates BMG v. Anthropic to Concord Music v. Anthropic I and II
Read more: Judge Lee relates BMG v. Anthropic to Concord Music v. Anthropic I and IIJudge Lee ordered the BMG lawsuit against Anthropic to be related to Concord Music v. Anthropic I and II. Judge Lee will now preside over all 3 lawsuits.
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Meta cites Judge Chhabria’s sua sponte severing of similar case to Judge Pitts re: Carreyrou v. Anthropic
Read more: Meta cites Judge Chhabria’s sua sponte severing of similar case to Judge Pitts re: Carreyrou v. AnthropicMeta wasted no time calling to Judge Pitts’s attention Judge Chhabria’s sua sponte severing the omnibus copyright lawsuit against 8 different AI companies filed by Chicken Soup for the Soul. That plaintiff is represented by the same law firm that represents Carreyrou (aka Cambronne) against the same 8 AI companies. Assuming Chicken Soup for the…