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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.
Read more: 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
Read more: Vacker Plaintiffs file opposition to Eleven Labs motion to dismissThe 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)
Read more: 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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Magistrate Judge Illman orders party to try to work out solution to deposing former OpenAI employee Robert Mann, co-founder of Anthropic
Read more: Magistrate Judge Illman orders party to try to work out solution to deposing former OpenAI employee Robert Mann, co-founder of AnthropicMagistrate 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
Read more: Benjamin Mann, co-founder of Anthropic, opposes deposition in Tremblay v. OpenAI re: the work he did for OpenAI in pastWe 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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Tremblay plaintiffs seek discovery re: torrents from OpenAI
Read more: Tremblay plaintiffs seek discovery re: torrents from OpenAIMagistrate Judge Illson denied several discovery motions of the Tremblay book author plaintiffs. Yet, one interesting revelation from the order is that the plaintiffs are seeking discovery related to the word “torrents” from OpenAI. Here’s the Judge’s discussion: As to RFP No. 45 (Use of Torrents), Plaintiffs concede that OpenAI did not and is not…
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Joseph Saveri appointed interim lead counsel in O’Nan, Makkai suits v. Google
Read more: Joseph Saveri appointed interim lead counsel in O’Nan, Makkai suits v. GoogleJoseph Saveri was appointed by Judge Breyer as the interim lead counsel based on an unopposed motion in the consolidated cases involving O’Nan and Makkai against Databricks and Mosaic ML. Saveri has a similar pending motion before Judge Lee in the In re Google Generative AI Litigation. Saveri has other cases in which no motion…