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Parties’ chart of discovery disputes in Authors Guild v. OpenAI

Parties have filed their handy-dandy chart outlining the discovery disputes for the conference before Magistrate Judge Wang on January 22.
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Google files motion to strike plaintiffs’ broad class allegations as improper “fail safe” class

We are finally beginning to see some legal challenge to the scope and definition of the classes in the lawsuits against AI companies. Google filed a motion to strike allegations related what it argues is a “fail-safe class,” which is improper. Here’s a bit of Google’s argument: One category of classes that fails the requirements…
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Google files motion to dismiss in In re Google Generative AI Litigation

Google filed a motion to dismiss the Amended Consolidated Complaint filed by the artists and content creators in In re Google Generative AI Litigation. The Table of Contents and brief are below:
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Excerpts of Mark Zuckerberg’s deposition by David Boies. Not as bad as plaintiffs say?

The Kadrey plaintiffs filed the unredacted version of their reply brief in support of their motion to file a Third Amended Consolidated Complaint, which Judge Chhabria granted. In their Reply, plaintiffs assert: “And just yesterday, when asked about the type of piracy described in the TACC, Mr. Zuckerberg testified that such activity would raise “lots…
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Judge Breyer grants order recaptioning consolidated cases filed by O’Nan, Makkai v. Databricks, Mosaic as In Re Mosaic LLM Litigation.

Here’s the order from Judge Breyer recaptioning the consolidated cases of O’Nan and Makkai as: In Re Mosaic LLM Litigation:
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Vacker Plaintiffs file opposition to Eleven Labs motion to dismiss

The Vacker plaintiffs filed their oposition to Eleven Labs’ motion to dismiss. The plaintiffs address the standing issue for DMCA CMI claims.
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Exhibits show Meta employees apparently discussing removal of copyright management information from materials from some works in dataset(s)

Based on Judge Chhabria’s order this week in the Kadrey v. Meta suit, the parties were allowed to file partially redacted exhibits related to the plaintiffs’ motion for leave to file a Third Amended Consolidated Complaint, which the Judge granted. Now we get to see some of the evidence the plaintiffs, led by David Boies’…
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OpenAI cites Magistrate Judge’s discovery order, limits to Magistrate Judge Wang in Authors Guild, New York Times suits

Fascinating to see the AI lawsuits being litigated simultaneously in Northern District of California and the Southern District of New York. OpenAI got a favorable discovery ruling from Magistrate Judge Illman in the In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation and is using it as relevant authority in a letter to Magistrate Judge Wang.
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Magistrate Judge Illman orders party to try to work out solution to deposing former OpenAI employee Robert Mann, co-founder of Anthropic

Magistrate Judge Illman wants the parties to meet and confer to resolve the dispute raised by non-party Robert Mann, whom the plaintiffs subpoenaed for a deposition: ORDER re 248 MOTION to Quash Plaintiffs’ Third-Party Deposition Subpoena or, in the Alternative, for a Protective Order filed by Benjamin J. Mann. All discovery disputes in this case…
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Benjamin Mann, co-founder of Anthropic, opposes deposition in Tremblay v. OpenAI re: the work he did for OpenAI in past

We are beginning to see some discovery skirmishes in the In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation. Benjamin Mann filed a motion to quash the subpoena lodged by the plaintiffs for his deposition. Mann points out that he doesn’t work for OpenAI and doesn’t have any special knowledge that current OpenAI employees wouldn’t know themselves. And, yet,…
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