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Apple, now represented by Dale Cendali, asks court to dismiss DMCA claim by YouTube creators Ted Entertainment
Read more: Apple, now represented by Dale Cendali, asks court to dismiss DMCA claim by YouTube creators Ted EntertainmentApple, now represented by Dale Cendali of Kirkland & Ellis and a team of lawyers from Kirkland and Latham & Watkins, just filed a motion to dismiss the YouTube creators Ted Entertainment’s DMCA anti-circumvention claim. Apple’s argument is the same one being made in other DMCA lawsuits related to YouTube videos that they are not…
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Judge Pitts to preside over cluster of Anthropic book author suits in ND California
Read more: Judge Pitts to preside over cluster of Anthropic book author suits in ND CaliforniaJudge Pitts made it official: nearly all of the later filed book author and publisher suits against Anthropic are now related cases to Cambronne aka Carreyrou v. Anthropic. The related cases designation means Judge Pitts will get all these other cases too (original judge assignments noted): Judge Pitts’ order didn’t include the recently filed lawsuit…
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New copyright shareholder derivative suit v. Microsoft, its directors & officers. Microsoft becomes 2d company hit with new legal theory v. directors & officers
Read more: New copyright shareholder derivative suit v. Microsoft, its directors & officers. Microsoft becomes 2d company hit with new legal theory v. directors & officersThe new theory of “copyright shareholder derivative” lawsuit is spreading. I’ve coined this term to describe shareholder derivative lawsuits under securities law that are based on the allegation that the directors and officers (D&O) approved copyright infringement, exposed the company to substantial risk of copyright liability, or made material misrepresentations about such conduct to conceal…
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Parties in Mosaic LLM case file summary judgment motions on infringement and fair use
Read more: Parties in Mosaic LLM case file summary judgment motions on infringement and fair useWe created a new page of the summary judgment briefs in In re Mosaic LLM Litigation before Judge Charles Breyer. Other than the case on appeal (ROSS Intelligence), only 4 cases of the AI copyright lawsuits have entered the summary judgment stage: Kadrey, Bartz, Concord Music I, and now In re Mosaic LLM. As shown…
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Suno sued again. 5th copyright suit in U.S. and 7th total worldwide.
Read more: Suno sued again. 5th copyright suit in U.S. and 7th total worldwide.Similar to its copyright suit filed against NVIDIA, S.A. Jamendo sued Suno for copyright infringement in its alleged use of Jamendo’s open-source music dataset. This is the 5th copyright suit against Suno in the United States and 7th worldwide. EXCERPT: * * * DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT: Related Story
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Disney seeks to invalidate Hailuo AI’s Terms of Use in Disney’s Answer to Nanoble’s counterclaim that Disney violated Terms of Use
Read more: Disney seeks to invalidate Hailuo AI’s Terms of Use in Disney’s Answer to Nanoble’s counterclaim that Disney violated Terms of UseThe chess match continues. Disney, Universal City Studios, and Warner Brothers filed their answer to the counterclaims raised by defendant Nanoble, provider of Hailuo AI generator. Nanoble’s Counterclaims v. Movie Studios Nanoble filed a counterclaim against the movie studios alleging that they violated the Terms of Use of Hailuo AI in generating the allegedly infringing…
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Daily News plaintiffs follow New York Times’ strategy in seeking to drop contributory infringement claims v. OpenAI and trademark dilution claims as well
Read more: Daily News plaintiffs follow New York Times’ strategy in seeking to drop contributory infringement claims v. OpenAI and trademark dilution claims as wellThe legal claims are dropping like hot potatoes in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation. The Daily News and other news plaintiffs are following the New York Times’ strategy in asking Judge Stein to allow them to abandon, with prejudice, their claims for contributory infringement against OpenAI, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in…
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New York Times abandons contributory infringement claim v. OpenAI in light of Supreme Court’s Cox decision
Read more: New York Times abandons contributory infringement claim v. OpenAI in light of Supreme Court’s Cox decisionAfter OpenAI filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings that the New York Times could not meet the intent standard for contributory infringement set forth by the Supreme Court in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, we wrote: “OpenAI’s brief seems quite strong in its explanation of the Supreme Court’s decision in Cox.“ The New…
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Platkin firm joins the AI copyright lawsuits in representing newspapers in Richner Communications v. Microsoft, OpenAI
Read more: Platkin firm joins the AI copyright lawsuits in representing newspapers in Richner Communications v. Microsoft, OpenAIMatthew J Platkin of Platkin LLP represents the 35 newspaper-publisher plaintiffs in the newly filed case, Richner Communications v. Microsoft, OpenAI, the 121st lawsuit against AI companies. From his firm bio: “From 2022 to 2026, Matt served as New Jersey’s 62nd Attorney General. In that role, he led national lawsuits that reshaped industries, defended our democracy,…
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Kadrey v. Meta parties submit case statement for remaining claims
Read more: Kadrey v. Meta parties submit case statement for remaining claimsThe Kadrey v. Meta set of cases (see below) continues to hum along. The parties filed their joint case management statement ahead of the hearing before Judge Chhabria on July 1, 2026. There will likely be additional discovery, as discussed in the statement, but the schedule set for the Entrepreneur Media case remains unchanged and…