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Adobe files Answer to Lyon’s consolidated complaint
Read more: Adobe files Answer to Lyon’s consolidated complaintAdobe filed its Answer to Lyon’s Consolidated Complaint. The suit relates to its small language model SlimLM. No surprises in the Answer. Adobe faces two other lawsuits, Tanzer and SEIU Pension Plan, related to its AI training. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE ANSWER:
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NYT, Chicago Tribune, Perplexity AI submit case management plans
Read more: NYT, Chicago Tribune, Perplexity AI submit case management plansThe parties in New York Times v. Perplexity AI and Chicago Tribune v. Perplexity AI filed their joint case management plans. The proposed schedule looks like this, with summary judgment briefing starting on Sept. 15, 2027: DOWNLOAD PLAN IN NYT V. PERPLEXITY AI
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Concord Music, Anthropic disagree on how best to proceed in Concord Music II
Read more: Concord Music, Anthropic disagree on how best to proceed in Concord Music IIConcord Music Group and Anthropic disagree on the best way to proceed with Concord Music v. Anthropic II related to Anthropic’s alleged torrenting of files from shadow libraries, as well as coordination with the BMG v. Anthropic related case. Meanwhile, summary judgment motion oppositions and replies are still to be filed in Concord Music I.…
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UMG Recordings seeks to file 2d Amended Complaint adding
Read more: UMG Recordings seeks to file 2d Amended Complaint addingUMG Recordings and Sony Music Entertainment are seeking leave to file a Second Amended Complaint to add 61,026 more works to the list of works Suno allegedly infringed, plus a claim for circumvention of technological protection measures under the DMCA, Section 1201. The plaintiffs contend they obtained relevant information of works infringed from discovery of…
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Adding Hobbs v. Meta, latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 113
Read more: Adding Hobbs v. Meta, latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 113Whenever we share an updated map of the copyright suits against AI companies, another lawsuit is filed. Sure enough, yesterday, another book author suit was filed against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, similar to the Elsevier lawsuit. But this suit also names two former Meta research scientists, Joelle Pineau and Guillaume Lampler. This may be a…
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Hobbs v. Meta: book authors sue Meta’s former AI research scientists Joelle Pineau & Guillaume Lampler, in addition to Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
Read more: Hobbs v. Meta: book authors sue Meta’s former AI research scientists Joelle Pineau & Guillaume Lampler, in addition to Meta and Mark ZuckerbergWell, it was bound to happen. The 113th U.S. copyright lawsuit against an AI company now is going after the AI research scientists allegedly involved in the training of AI models. The only other one, Concord Music v. Anthropic II, at least was limited to co-founders of the company Anthropic, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann.…
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Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 112 (May 22, 2026)
Read more: Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 112 (May 22, 2026)We added 12 lawsuits since our last map. We also reorganized some of the lawsuits in the Northern District of California, clustering some of them by defendants. DOWNLOAD THE PDF with links to each docket:
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Uncharted Labs wins dismissal of two claims in copyright suit by musician Justice
Read more: Uncharted Labs wins dismissal of two claims in copyright suit by musician JusticeJudge Hellerstein agreed with defendant Uncharted Labs’ motion to dismiss musician Tony Justice’s claim for creation of unauthorized derivative works in outputs of Udio’s AI because the complaint lacked specific allegations. The court granted leave to amend the complaint to add such allegations within 30 days. But, agreeing with his own ruling in Sony Music…
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Magistrate Judge Wang agrees with Plaintiffs’ motion to get depositions of Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Satya Nadella in Musk v. Altman
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang agrees with Plaintiffs’ motion to get depositions of Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Satya Nadella in Musk v. AltmanEven though OpenAI won its defense in Musk v. Altman where the court found the claims were barred by the statute of limitations, Musk’s lawsuit continues to nag OpenAI. Magistrate Judge Wang just granted the plaintiffs’ motion in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation to get the deposition transcripts of four Musk witnesses: Sam Altman,…