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Judge Pitts to sever John Carreyrou’s omnibus copyright lawsuit v. 8 AI companies. But unclear if Judge will keep case v. Anthropic.
Read more: Judge Pitts to sever John Carreyrou’s omnibus copyright lawsuit v. 8 AI companies. But unclear if Judge will keep case v. Anthropic.We will soon have greater clarity with what happens to John Carreyrou’s omnibus lawsuit against 8 AI companies (some of which have already been severed). Yesterday, Judge Pitts indicated that he will grant the motions to sever the lawsuit. But he had not decided which cases involving which defendant(s) he would keep. Interestingly, Carreyrou through…
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David L. Greene opposes Google’s motion to dismiss complaint with state law claims related to alleged use of his voice
Read more: David L. Greene opposes Google’s motion to dismiss complaint with state law claims related to alleged use of his voiceFormer NPR host of “All Things Considered,” David L. Greene has filed his opposition to Google’s motion to dismiss his state law claims for alleged appropriation of his voice. Google argues his claims are preempted by the Copyright Act. Greene argues they are not. The suit is before Judge Breyer. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD GREENE’S OPPOSITION
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Darius H. James seeks to file First Amended Complaint v. Cerebras Systems after adding Lieff Cabraser lawyers
Read more: Darius H. James seeks to file First Amended Complaint v. Cerebras Systems after adding Lieff Cabraser lawyersAuthor Darius H. James has filed for leave to file a First Amended Complaint. James recently added lawyers from Lieff Cabraser law firm, who are heavily involved representing book authors in multiple suits against AI companies. The proposed First Amended Complaint adds a claim for contributory infringement. The claims relate to Cerebras Systems’ creation of…
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Anthropic cites Judge Chhabria’s relating new lawsuits filed v. Meta by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Carreyrou, Cognella to Kadrey v. Meta.
Read more: Anthropic cites Judge Chhabria’s relating new lawsuits filed v. Meta by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Carreyrou, Cognella to Kadrey v. Meta.Anthropic has cited Judge Chhabria’s decision to relate the recently filed lawsuits v. Meta by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cambronne, and Cognella, respectively. Anthropic has asked Judge Martínez-Olguín, who was assigned Bartz v. Anthropic following Judge Alsup’s retirement, to relate the recently filed lawsuits v. Anthropic by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cambronne (aka…
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Musk v. Altman trial week 3: Ilya Sutskever provides captivating testimony favorable to OpenAI
Read more: Musk v. Altman trial week 3: Ilya Sutskever provides captivating testimony favorable to OpenAIWeek 3 of the Musk v. Altman trial started off big. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified about the company’s investment in OpenAI, initially $1 billion, of which Nadella said he was proud to be the first company to back OpenAI. Nadella also testified about the “chaos” ensuing the attempted firing of Sam Altman and Nadella’s…
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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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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…