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Parties in cluster of Kadrey v. Meta-related cases filed case management statements

The parties in the cluster of cases involving Kadrey v. Meta or ones consolidated with or related to that case have filed their respective Joint Case Management Statements. Kadrey is a proposed class action. The others are not. They have attempted to align their Scheduling Orders. Kadrey: Entrepreneur Media: DOWNLOAD THE JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENTS
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David Greene reply in support of remand to state court

David Greene, former host of NPR’s All Things Considered, filed his reply in support of his motion to remand the case back to state court. DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF: Related Stories
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Magistrate Judge Cisneros asks Midjourney to answer further questions, all redacted

Magistrate Judge Cisneros has ordered Midjourney to answer further questions related to a discovery dispute in the lawsuit filed by Sarah Andersen. But all the questions are redacted from public view. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE ORDER
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Concord Music v. Anthropic I Second Amended Complaint after secondary liability claims dismissed with prejudice

Concord Music v. Anthropic I is in a temporary 90-day stay. Concord Music got its wishes in the voluntarily dismissal of its claims for contributory infringement and vicarious infringement. Now Concord Music filed its Second Amended Complaint, removing the secondary liability claims: Related Stories
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Suno sued again, this time by Poseidon Wave Media. 4th US suit and 6th suit worldwide.

Poseidon Wave Media filed a copyright suit against Suno on May 12, 2026. It raises a single claim of direct copyright infringement. The suit was filed by Garbarini Fitzgerald law firm in the Southern District of New York. Judge Castel has been assigned the case. It’s the 4th copyright suit against Suno in the United…
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Molly Tanzer sues Adobe for copyright infringement in AI. Her 2d suit. Both filed by Joseph Saveri Law Firm.

Molly Tanzer, a book author, has filed another copyright lawsuit in a proposed class action. This one is against Adobe for its alleged use of the SlimPajama dataset, a subset compiled from Books3 dataset by Cerebras for AI research, to train Adobe’s model(s). In James v. Cerebras, Cerebras contends that its purpose for sharing the…
Read more: Molly Tanzer sues Adobe for copyright infringement in AI. Her 2d suit. Both filed by Joseph Saveri Law Firm.
Similar to Angie Cruz suit v. Anthropic, R.O. Kwon, Chang-rae Lee, Sonia Nazario, Erika Sanchez among 34 book authors suing Anthropic

Anthropic is gaining on OpenAI’s in terms of most copyright lawsuits to defend. A third group of book authors who opted out of the Bartz class settlement just sued Anthropic. Anthropic now has 9 lawsuits against it. OpenAI has 24. The first group of Bartz opt outs, led by John Carreyrou aka Cambronne Inc., is…
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Meta seeks dismissal of Ted Entertainment’s DMCA case based on YouTube videos

Meta has filed its motion to dismiss the YouTube creators Ted Entertainment and other plaintiffs’ claim for alleged circumvention of access controls on YouTube videos. Meta argues that there are no access controls, instead merely copying controls that fall outside the DMCA anti-circumvention provision. Meta also argues that Ted Entertainment lacks both Article III standing…
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Final Approval of Class Settlement Hearing in Bartz v. Anthropic recap

Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin held the hearing for the final approval of the class settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic, which was also live-streamed. Class Counsel Justin Nelson said the payout per work in the class will be $3,100. The class had 92.77% of participation rate for the works in the works list. David Hansen of Authors…
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Google opposes David Greene’s motion to remand case to state court

Google opposes Dadid L. Greene’s motion to remand the case back to state court. Green alleges Google misappropriated and used recordings of his voice to train its Notebook LM model. Google argues Greene’s state law claims are equivalent to a copyright claim and preempted by the Copyright Act. DOWNLOAD GOOGLE’S OPPOSITION
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