Category: AI Copyright Wars

Google sued again in AI copyright lawsuit by EVOX Productions for alleged use of images to train Nano Banana model. Total AI suits = 127

After suing Stanford University for creating the famous ImageNet datasets that allegedly include EVOX Productions’ car photographs, EVOX continues filing more lawsuits. First it was Stanford. Then it was Hugging Face, Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art. Now it’s Google. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT:
Read more: Google sued again in AI copyright lawsuit by EVOX Productions for alleged use of images to train Nano Banana model. Total AI suits = 127
Judge Pitts relates Shakespeare v. Anthropic to Cambronne v. Anthropic. Judge to preside over all book author suits v. Anthropic, post-Bartz

As we predicted, Judge Pitts has deemed the Shakespeare v. Anthropic suit a related case to Cambronne v. Anthropic in the Northern District of California. The music cases (Concord Music I and II, and BMG) are before Judge Lee. The book cases before Judge Pitts are: Judge Pitts’ Order: Related Story:
Read more: Judge Pitts relates Shakespeare v. Anthropic to Cambronne v. Anthropic. Judge to preside over all book author suits v. Anthropic, post-Bartz
Judge Chhabria denies Kadrey book authors’ motion to seek an interlocutory appeal of downloading part of ruling in fair use decision

Judge Chhabria denied the request of the Kadrey book authors to certify for interlocutory appeal to the Ninth Circuit the judge’s ruling on the initial downloading of copies of books used to train Meta’s AI models. The order states: The motion for leave to file an interlocutory appeal is denied. To be sure, the issue…
Read more: Judge Chhabria denies Kadrey book authors’ motion to seek an interlocutory appeal of downloading part of ruling in fair use decision
AI copyright cases hit 125 on 250th birthday of United States. New infographic.

On the 250th birthday of the United States of America, the copyright lawsuits filed against AI companies hit 125. A fitting number. This number shows, not only that the U.S. is the global epicenter of copyright litigation against AI companies, but also that the United States is the land of litigation. To commemorate this moment,…
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Hugging Face open-source AI platform dragged into AI Copyright Wars in suit by EVOX Productions v. Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art. Suits hit 125 v. AI cos. in U.S. on its 250th birthday

The AI Copyright Wars are escalating. EVOX Productions, which has already sued Stanford University for the creation of the ImageNet dataset, has now turned its litigation attention to Hugging Face, the open-source platform for AI developers. Hugging Face’s alleged infringement includes: “the ‘Stanford Cars’ dataset, contains 8,144 images of automobiles for public download, including 225…
Read more: Hugging Face open-source AI platform dragged into AI Copyright Wars in suit by EVOX Productions v. Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art. Suits hit 125 v. AI cos. in U.S. on its 250th birthday
Apple, now represented by Dale Cendali, asks court to dismiss DMCA claim by YouTube creators Ted Entertainment

Apple, 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…
Read more: Apple, now represented by Dale Cendali, asks court to dismiss DMCA claim by YouTube creators Ted Entertainment
Judge Pitts to preside over cluster of Anthropic book author suits in ND California

Judge 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

The 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…
Read more: New copyright shareholder derivative suit v. Microsoft, its directors & officers. Microsoft becomes 2d company hit with new legal theory v. directors & officers
Parties in Mosaic LLM case file summary judgment motions on infringement and fair use

We 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.

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
Read more: Suno sued again. 5th copyright suit in U.S. and 7th total worldwide.